Chaining swift combine publishers and receiving each result - swift

Question

In the example below, I’m making a network request to load different movie genres, then using that to load all the movies. The sink only returns the movie results. How could I receive both the genres and movies?
struct Genre: Codable, Identifiable{
let id: Int
let name: String
var movies: [Movie]?
}
struct Movie: Codable, Hashable, Identifiable {
let title: String
let id: Int
let posterPath: String?
let backdropPath : String?
var tagline: String?
}
loadGenres() is AnyPublisher<[Genre], Error>
fetchMoviesIn() is AnyPublisher<[Movie], Error>
class GenresViewModel: ObservableObject{
#Published var genres = [Genre]()
#Published var movies = [Movie]()
var requests = Set<AnyCancellable>()
init(){
NetworkManager.shared.loadGenres()
.flatMap{ genres in
genres.publisher.flatMap{ genre in
NetworkManager.shared.fetchMoviesIn(genre)
}
}
.collect()
.retry(1)
.receive(on: DispatchQueue.main)
.sink(receiveCompletion: { completion in
switch completion{
case .finished:
print("Finished loading all movies in every genre")
case .failure(let error):
print("Error: \(error)")
}
}, receiveValue: { [self] values in
let allMovies = values.joined()
self.movies = allMovies.map{$0}
})
.store(in: &self.requests)
}
}

Answer 1

Depends on how you want to collect genres and movies.
For example, do you want a genre and a list of movies in that genre? The result could be an array of (Genre, [Movies]).
NetworkManager.shared.loadGenres()
.flatMap { genres in
genres.publisher.setFailureType(to: Error.self)
}
.flatMap { genre in
NetworkManager.shared.fetchMoviesIn(genre)
.map { movies in (genre, movies) }
}
.collect()
Or, if you want an array of (Genre, Movie) tuples, then it's a similar approach, but with an additional level of .flatMap to get individual movies
NetworkManager.shared.loadGenres()
.flatMap { genres in
genres.publisher.setFailureType(to: Error.self)
}
.flatMap { genre in
NetworkManager.shared.fetchMoviesIn(genre)
.flatMap { movies in
movies.publisher.setFailureType(to: Error.self)
}
.map { movie in (genre, movie) }
}
.collect()
To answer your comment question, you want to return the updated Genre, you could return that instead of returning a tuple. Bear in mind that since Genre is a struct, you'd need to create a variable copy of the object (the genre available in the flatMap closure is a constant), update the copy, and return that:
NetworkManager.shared.loadGenres()
.flatMap { genres in
genres.publisher.setFailureType(to: Error.self)
}
.flatMap { genre in
NetworkManager.shared.fetchMoviesIn(genre)
.map { movies -> Genre in
var genreCopy = genre
genreCopy.movies = movies
return genreCopy
}
}
.collect()