[ios] How to loop through an array of objects in swift

I'm trying to access the url of an object stored in an array, but I'm getting errors no matters what methods I'm using.

let userPhotos = currentUser?.photos

    for var i = 0; i < userPhotos!.count ; ++i {
        let url = userPhotos[i].url
    }

Here I get

Could not find member 'url'

and with a foreach:

for photo in userPhotos {

        Utils.getImageAsync(photo.url , completion: { (img: UIImage?) -> () in

        })
    }

I get:

'[ModelAttachment]?' does not have a member named 'Generator'

My array is var photos: Array<ModelAttachment>? and my ModelAttachment looks like this:

class ModelAttachment :Model {
var id: String?
var url: String?
var thumb: String?
}

Any pointers to what I'm doing wrong would be great :)

This question is related to ios arrays swift

The answer is


Your userPhotos array is option-typed, you should retrieve the actual underlying object with ! (if you want an error in case the object isn't there) or ? (if you want to receive nil in url):

let userPhotos = currentUser?.photos

for var i = 0; i < userPhotos!.count ; ++i {
    let url = userPhotos![i].url
}

But to preserve safe nil handling, you better use functional approach, for instance, with map, like this:

let urls = userPhotos?.map{ $0.url }

You can try using the simple NSArray in syntax for iterating over the array in swift which makes for shorter code. The following is working for me:

class ModelAttachment {
    var id: String?
    var url: String?
    var thumb: String?
}

var modelAttachementObj = ModelAttachment()
modelAttachementObj.id = "1"
modelAttachementObj.url = "http://www.google.com"
modelAttachementObj.thumb = "thumb"

var imgs: Array<ModelAttachment> = [modelAttachementObj]

for img in imgs  {
    let url = img.url
    NSLog(url!)
}

See docs here


The photos property is an optional array and must be unwrapped before accessing its elements (the same as you do to get the count property of the array):

for var i = 0; i < userPhotos!.count ; ++i {
    let url = userPhotos![i].url
}

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