how to get element type for array in swift

Question

Firstly there is a base class be called BaseModel ,below is the code:

class BaseModel : NSObject
{
    var code:Int?        
    var message:Any?  

    public func setDictionaryToAttributes(dictionary_is dictionary:Dictionary<String,Any>?)->Bool
    {
        guard let dic:Dictionary<String,Any> = dictionary else {return false}

        for (key,value) in dic {
            let someType = type(of: value)
            debugPrint("\(String(describing: someType.self))")
            debugPrint("\(String(describing: someType))")
            if someType is Array<Any>.Type { //i can't get TestListItemModel string               
                debugPrint("\(String(describing: someType))")
            }
        }

        self.setValuesForKeys(dic)
        return true;
    }
}//class BaseModel end

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and there is another class inherited from BaseModel

class TestListModel: BaseModel {
    var tatalink:Any?
    var items:Array<TestListItemModel>? 

    func setValuesFrom(jsonData j:JSON) { //j is a swifyJson object

        guard var dic = j.dictionaryObject else {return}
        if self.setDictionaryToAttributes(dictionary_is: dic)==false {
            return
        } 
   }
}

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there is a class TestListItemModel for submodel in TestListModel

class TestListItemModel:BaseModel {
    var imgurl:       Any? 
    var title:        Any? 
}

Question is: I want to automatically parse all attribute values in the BaseModel class from json data. in func analysetDictionaryToAttributes: I can find which one is Array, but I don't know how to get this type and Continue to call it's analysetDictionaryToAttributes func.

Answer 1

Why do you expect to get TestListItemModel in your BaseModel class function. First of all I cannot see any structure having TestListItemModel. Because I can see you are just passing json dictionary object which is unaware of your class 'TestListItemModel' in this line

self.setDictionaryToAttributes(dictionary_is: dic)

Then why do you expect that parent class will know about its child class here is TestListItemModel and TestListModel.

So in this function

public func setDictionaryToAttributes(dictionary_is dictionary:Dictionary<String,Any>?)->Bool

you will always get Dictionary of String as a key and Value as Any type. And if you are expecting String then you can always check it this way

if value = value as String
{
   print(value)
}