Hi, I've got this view model that will do a search using a database of keywords. It worked fine when the SearchEngine
wasn't an actor but a regular class and the SearchResult
wasn't a Sendable
. But when I changed them, it returned Type of expression is ambiguous without a type annotation
error at line 21 ( searchTask = Task {
). What did I do wrong here? Thanks.
protocol SearchableEngine: Actor {
func searchOrSuggest(from query: String) -> SearchResult?
func setValidTitles(_ validTitles: [String])
}
@MainActor
final class SearchViewModel: ObservableObject {
@Published var showSuggestion: Bool = false
@Published var searchedTitles: [String] = []
@Published var suggestedKeyword: String? = nil
private var searchTask: Task<Void, Never>?
private let searchEngine: SearchableEngine
init(searchEngine: SearchableEngine) {
self.searchEngine = searchEngine
}
func search(_ text: String) {
searchTask?.cancel()
searchTask = Task {
guard !Task.isCancelled else { return }
let searchResult = await searchEngine.searchOrSuggest(from: text) ?? .notFound
guard !Task.isCancelled else { return }
await MainActor.run {
switch searchResult {
case let .searchItems(_, items):
showSuggestion = false
searchedTitles = items.map(\.title)
suggestedKeyword = nil
case let .suggestion(keyword, _, items):
showSuggestion = true
searchedTitles = items.map(\.title)
suggestedKeyword = keyword
case .notFound:
showSuggestion = false
searchedTitles = []
suggestedKeyword = nil
}
}
}
}
}