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Daniel Schmidt
Daniel Schmidt

Reputation: 139

How to use enum (which is defined inside a struct) as key of dictionary?

I have the following code:

struct TestStruct2 {
    let field1: String
    let field2: Int

    enum TestEnum2 {
        case Value1
        case Value2
    }

}

    let dic2 = Dictionary<TestStruct2.TestEnum2, TestStruct2>()
    let dic3 = [TestStruct2.TestEnum2 : TestStruct2]()

dic2 works successfully.

But dic3 returns an compiler error:

 (Type of expression is ambiguous without more context)

I don't understand why. Any Ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 149

Answers (1)

vacawama
vacawama

Reputation: 154613

As mentioned by @Hamish in the comments, this is a compiler bug. You've already shown one workaround which is to use the long form:

let dic2 = Dictionary<TestStruct2.TestEnum2, TestStruct2>()

A second workaround is to create a typealias for the nested type:

typealias TestStruct2Enum2 = TestStruct2.TestEnum2

let dic3 = [TestStruct2Enum2 : TestStruct2]()

A third workaround is to create a typealias of the entire dictionary:

typealias Test2Dict = [TestStruct2.TestEnum2 : TestStruct2]

let dic4 = Test2Dict()

A fourth workaround is to explicitly specify the type and initialize the dictionary with the [:] literal:

let dic5: [TestStruct2.TestEnum2 : TestStruct2] = [:]

A final workaround is to cast the literal to the type:

let dic6 = [:] as [TestStruct2.TestEnum2 : TestStruct2]

Upvotes: 1

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