You don't have to reduce an array to get it into a set; just create the set with an array: let objectSet = Set(objects.map { $0.URL }).
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You don't have to reduce an array to get it into a set; just create the set with an array: let objectSet = Set(objects.map { $0.URL }).
With Swift 5.1, you can use one of the three following examples in order to solve your problem.
#1. Using Array's map(_:) method and Set's init(_:) initializer
In the simplest case, you can map you initial array to an array of urls (String) then create a set from that array. The Playground below code shows how to do it:
struct MyObject {
let url: String
}
let objectArray = [
MyObject(url: "mozilla.org"),
MyObject(url: "gnu.org"),
MyObject(url: "git-scm.com")
]
let urlArray = objectArray.map({ $0.url })
let urlSet = Set(urlArray)
dump(urlSet)
// ▿ 3 members
// - "git-scm.com"
// - "mozilla.org"
// - "gnu.org"
#2. Using Array's reduce(into:_:) method
struct MyObject {
let url: String
}
let objectArray = [
MyObject(url: "mozilla.org"),
MyObject(url: "gnu.org"),
MyObject(url: "git-scm.com")
]
let urlSet = objectArray.reduce(into: Set<String>(), { (urls, object) in
urls.insert(object.url)
})
dump(urlSet)
// ▿ 3 members
// - "git-scm.com"
// - "mozilla.org"
// - "gnu.org"
As an alternative, you can use Array's reduce(_:_:) method:
struct MyObject {
let url: String
}
let objectArray = [
MyObject(url: "mozilla.org"),
MyObject(url: "gnu.org"),
MyObject(url: "git-scm.com")
]
let urlSet = objectArray.reduce(Set<String>(), { (partialSet, object) in
var urls = partialSet
urls.insert(object.url)
return urls
})
dump(urlSet)
// ▿ 3 members
// - "git-scm.com"
// - "mozilla.org"
// - "gnu.org"
#3. Using an Array extension
If necessary, you can create a mapToSet method for Array that takes a transform closure parameter and returns a Set. The Playground below code shows how to use it:
extension Array {
func mapToSet<T: Hashable>(_ transform: (Element) -> T) -> Set<T> {
var result = Set<T>()
for item in self {
result.insert(transform(item))
}
return result
}
}
struct MyObject {
let url: String
}
let objectArray = [
MyObject(url: "mozilla.org"),
MyObject(url: "gnu.org"),
MyObject(url: "git-scm.com")
]
let urlSet = objectArray.mapToSet({ $0.url })
dump(urlSet)
// ▿ 3 members
// - "git-scm.com"
// - "mozilla.org"
// - "gnu.org"
You can create an array with all elements from a given Swift
Set simply with
let array = Array(someSet)
This works because Set conforms to the SequenceType protocol
and an Array can be initialized with a sequence. Example:
let mySet = Set(["a", "b", "a"]) // Set<String>
let myArray = Array(mySet) // Array<String>
print(myArray) // [b, a]
In the simplest case, with Swift 3, you can use Array's init(_:) initializer to get an Array from a Set. init(_:) has the following declaration:
init<S>(_ s: S) where S : Sequence, Element == S.Iterator.Element
Creates an array containing the elements of a sequence.
Usage:
let stringSet = Set(arrayLiteral: "car", "boat", "car", "bike", "toy")
let stringArray = Array(stringSet)
print(stringArray)
// may print ["toy", "car", "bike", "boat"]
However, if you also want to perform some operations on each element of your Set while transforming it into an Array, you can use map, flatMap, sort, filter and other functional methods provided by Collection protocol:
let stringSet = Set(["car", "boat", "bike", "toy"])
let stringArray = stringSet.sorted()
print(stringArray)
// will print ["bike", "boat", "car", "toy"]
let stringSet = Set(arrayLiteral: "car", "boat", "car", "bike", "toy")
let stringArray = stringSet.filter { $0.characters.first != "b" }
print(stringArray)
// may print ["car", "toy"]
let intSet = Set([1, 3, 5, 2])
let stringArray = intSet.flatMap { String($0) }
print(stringArray)
// may print ["5", "2", "3", "1"]
let intSet = Set([1, 3, 5, 2])
// alternative to `let intArray = Array(intSet)`
let intArray = intSet.map { $0 }
print(intArray)
// may print [5, 2, 3, 1]