How to combine two Dictionary instances in Swift?

Question

How do I append one Dictionary to another Dictionary using Swift?

I am using the AlamoFire library to send a

Answer 1

Try This Approach

    let dict1: [String: AnyObject] = ["kFacebook": ["kToken": "token"]]
    let dict2: [String: AnyObject] = ["kRequest": ["kTargetUserId": "userId"]]

    var combinedAttributes : NSMutableDictionary!

    combinedAttributes = NSMutableDictionary(dictionary: dict1)

    combinedAttributes.addEntriesFromDictionary(dict2)

    println(combinedAttributes)

It will Print Following :

{
kFacebook =     {
    kToken = token;
};
kRequest =     {
    kTargetUserId = userId;
};

}

Hope it helps !!

Answer 2

func +=<Key, Value> (lhs: inout [Key: Value], rhs: [Key: Value]) {
    rhs.forEach{ lhs[$0] = $1 }
}

var dic1 = ["test1": 1]

dic1 += ["test2": 2]

dic1  // ["test2": 2, "test1": 1]

Answer 3

My needs were different, I wanted to merge and not clobber.

merging:
    ["b": [1, 2], "s": Set([5, 6]), "a": 1, "d": ["x": 2]]
with
    ["b": [3, 4], "s": Set([6, 7]), "a": 2, "d": ["y": 4]]
yields:
    ["b": [1, 2, 3, 4], "s": Set([5, 6, 7]), "a": 2, "d": ["y": 4, "x": 2]]

I was hoping for a simpler solution, but this is what I ended up with. The challenge was in hopping from dynamic typing to static typing, and I used protocols to solve this.

Also worthy of note is that when you use the dictionary literal syntax, you actually get the foundation types, which do not pick up the protocol extensions. I aborted my efforts to support those as I couldn't find an easy to to validate the uniformity of the collection elements.

import UIKit


private protocol Mergable {
    func mergeWithSame<T>(right: T) -> T?
}



public extension Dictionary {

    /**
    Merge Dictionaries

    - Parameter left: Dictionary to update
    - Parameter right:  Source dictionary with values to be merged

    - Returns: Merged dictionay
    */


    func merge(right:Dictionary) -> Dictionary {
        var merged = self
        for (k, rv) in right {

            // case of existing left value
            if let lv = self[k] {

                if let lv = lv as? Mergable where lv.dynamicType == rv.dynamicType {
                    let m = lv.mergeWithSame(rv)
                    merged[k] = m
                }

                else if lv is Mergable {
                    assert(false, "Expected common type for matching keys!")
                }

                else if !(lv is Mergable), let _ = lv as? NSArray {
                    assert(false, "Dictionary literals use incompatible Foundation Types")
                }

                else if !(lv is Mergable), let _ = lv as? NSDictionary {
                    assert(false, "Dictionary literals use incompatible Foundation Types")
                }

                else {
                    merged[k] = rv
                }
            }

                // case of no existing value
            else {
                merged[k] = rv
            }
        }

        return merged
    }
}




extension Array: Mergable {

    func mergeWithSame<T>(right: T) -> T? {

        if let right = right as? Array {
            return (self + right) as? T
        }

        assert(false)
        return nil
    }
}


extension Dictionary: Mergable {

    func mergeWithSame<T>(right: T) -> T? {

        if let right = right as? Dictionary {
            return self.merge(right) as? T
        }

        assert(false)
        return nil
    }
}


extension Set: Mergable {

    func mergeWithSame<T>(right: T) -> T? {

        if let right = right as? Set {
            return self.union(right) as? T
        }

        assert(false)
        return nil
    }
}



var dsa12 = Dictionary<String, Any>()
dsa12["a"] = 1
dsa12["b"] = [1, 2]
dsa12["s"] = Set([5, 6])
dsa12["d"] = ["c":5, "x": 2]


var dsa34 = Dictionary<String, Any>()
dsa34["a"] = 2
dsa34["b"] = [3, 4]
dsa34["s"] = Set([6, 7])
dsa34["d"] = ["c":-5, "y": 4]


//let dsa2 = ["a": 1, "b":a34]
let mdsa3 = dsa12.merge(dsa34)
print("merging:\n\t\(dsa12)\nwith\n\t\(dsa34) \nyields: \n\t\(mdsa3)")

Answer 4

You can use the below code to combine two dictionary instances in Swift:

extension Dictionary {
    func merge(dict: Dictionary<Key,Value>) -> Dictionary<Key,Value> {
        var mutableCopy = self
        for (key, value) in dict {
            // If both dictionaries have a value for same key, the value of the other dictionary is used.
            mutableCopy[key] = value
        }
        return mutableCopy
    }
}

Answer 5

var d1 = ["a": "b"]
var d2 = ["c": "e"]

extension Dictionary {
    mutating func merge(dict: [Key: Value]){
        for (k, v) in dict {
            updateValue(v, forKey: k)
        }
    }
}

d1.merge(d2)

Refer to the awesome Dollar & Cent project https://github.com/ankurp/Cent/blob/master/Sources/Dictionary.swift

Answer 6

For Swift >= 2.2:
let parameters = dict1.reduce(dict2) { r, e in var r = r; r[e.0] = e.1; return r }

For Swift < 2.2:
let parameters = dict1.reduce(dict2) { (var r, e) in r[e.0] = e.1; return r }

Swift 4 has a new function: let parameters = dict1.reduce(into: dict2) { (r, e) in r[e.0] = e.1 }

It's really important to dig around the standard library: map, reduce, dropFirst, forEach etc. are staples of terse code. The functional bits are fun!