I’ll try. Is that cast smart enough to apply recursively? We shall see.
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> On Oct 19, 2017, at 7:34 AM, Geordie Jay <geo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I mean can you do something along the lines of
>
> let codableDict = stringAnyDict as? [String : Codable]
>
> ?
>
> I’m not at a computer to test it myself
>
>
>
>
> David Baraff <davidbar...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do. 19. Okt. 2017 um 15:45:
>> That’s exactly what I want. The ironic part is that I got my dictionary by
>> decoding a Json file. If that’s where my dictionary came from, is there a
>> simple way of coercing the Json serialization routines to give me back
>> codables, rather than Anys?
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Oct 19, 2017, at 3:38 AM, Geordie Jay <geo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> David Baraff via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> schrieb am Do. 19.
>>> Okt. 2017 um 03:47:
>>>> So I have simple structs like this:
>>>>
>>>> struct Library: Codable {
>>>> let domain: String
>>>> let unit: String
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> and it’s super-simple to serialize. Yay.
>>>>
>>>> But:
>>>>
>>>> struct LibraryGroup : Codable { // I wish...
>>>> let libraries: [Library]
>>>> let someDict: [String : Any]
>>>> }
>>>
>>> I haven’t tried this, but is it possible to have a dictionary of [String :
>>> Codable] ? Because that’s exactly the type requirements you’re describing,
>>> no?
>>>
>>> Geordie
>>>
>>>>
>>>> So what I’m looking for is something where if the values in someDict are
>>>> themselves Codable, I can serialize things, and if they’re not, I can’t.
>>>> In my previous scheme, I was using NSKeyedArchiver to serialize
>>>> everything, manualy, including someDict; in trying to switch to Codable I
>>>> ran smack into the fact that Codable wants to know what all the types are,
>>>> in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Am I just stuck? How do I get the best of both worlds, where the compiler
>>>> can make use of the fact that it can see the data types of my structures,
>>>> while still being able to serialize heterogenous data like is found in
>>>> LibraryGroup?
>>>>
>>>> Is my only alternative to write a custom coder for LibraryGroup? Is there
>>>> any hope I could teach Codable what to do with
>>>> [String: Any]
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>>
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