AnyObject to Array?
To cast your data to an array:
var twDataArray = (twData as! NSArray) as Array
The code above first casts twData
to an NSArray
, and then to an Array
via a bridging cast. A bridging cast is a special type of cast which converts an Objective-C type to it's _ObjectiveCBridgeable
conformant, Swift counterpart.
(Note that I didn't need to write Array<AnyObject>
because the element AnyObject
is inferred in the bridging cast from NSArray
→ Array
)
Note that the cast above is a forced downcast. Only use this if you're absolutely sure that twData
is going to be an instance of NSArray
. Otherwise, use an optional cast.
var twDataArray = (twData as? NSArray) as Array?
Try the following, you can iterate through the array as given below.
for element in twData as! Array<AnyObject> { print(element)}
This works in a playground:
var data: Array<Dictionary<String,String>>? = twData as? Array<Dictionary<String, String>>
the difference from your code is that twData
does not require the ?
at the end - it is an optional so the as?
operator will take care of verifying that it can be case to an array of dictionaries - needless to say, if it's nil, as?
will evaluate to nil