Type does not have a member

Question

I'm playing around with a Swift playground working on a new class. For some reason I keep getting an error that the class "does not have a member type" with the name of a constant defined three lines earlier. Here is the code:

import Foundation
class DataModel {
    let myCalendar = NSCalendar.autoupdatingCurrentCalendar()

    var myData = [NSDate : Float]()
    let now  = NSDate()
    let components = myCalendar.components(.CalendarUnitYear | .CalendarUnitMonth, fromDate: now)
}

Xcode Beta6 keeps give me an error on the second to last line, saying that "DataModel.Type does not have a member named 'myCalendar'

Though I don't think it should make a difference, I have tried defining myCalendar as a var.

Answer 1

You cannot initialize an instance class property referencing another instance property of the same class, because it's not guaranteed in which order they will be initialized - and swift prohibits that, hence the (misleading) compiler error.

You have to move the initialization in a constructor as follows:

let components: NSDateComponents

init() {
    self.components = myCalendar.components(.CalendarUnitYear | .CalendarUnitMonth, fromDate: now)
}

Answer 2

I agree with @Antonio The other way might be to create struct if you don't want to use init:

class DataModel {

    struct MyStruct {
        static var myCalendar:NSCalendar = NSCalendar.autoupdatingCurrentCalendar()
        static let now  = NSDate()
    }

    var myData = [NSDate : Float]()

    var components = MyStruct.myCalendar.components(.CalendarUnitYear | .CalendarUnitMonth, fromDate: MyStruct.now)
}

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Test

var model:DataModel = DataModel()
var c = model.components.year  // 2014