Watson Assistant in Swift 4 Producing Error - swift

I'm trying to connect an iOS project, coded in Swift, to an instance of a Watson Assistant that I've already created. The issue is, I can't get past a "Contextual Closure type" error in compiling.
I'm relatively new to Swift and I have yet to come across a solution.
The error arises in the block of code provided by IBM themselves (here's the link: https://console.bluemix.net/docs/swift/machine_learning/conversation.html#before-you-begin). The one thing I could find was that this is likely a result of the update to Swift 4. Below is the function that's producing the error; more specifically, it's the "response in" statement, after the third comment.
func assistantExample() {
// Assistant credentials
let username = "shawn.soneja85#gmail.com"
let password = "Shawn8135!"
let workspace = "199b1f99-b28c-4b3f-b610-5933328141d5"
// instantiate service
let assistant = Assistant(username: username, password: password, version: "2018-03-01")
// start a conversation
assistant.message(workspaceID: workspace) { response in
print("Conversation ID: \(response.context.conversationID!)")
print("Response: \(response.output.text.joined())")
// continue assistant
print("Request: turn the radio on")
let input = InputData(text: "turn the radio on")
let request = MessageRequest(input: input, context: response.context)
assistant.message(workspaceID: workspace, request: request) { response in
print("Response: \(response.output.text.joined())")
}
}
}
Here's the error itself:
Contextual closure type '(RestResponse?, WatsonError?) -> Void' (aka '(Optional>, Optional) -> ()') expects 2 arguments, but 1 was used in closure body
Update:
I've tried replacing "response" with "(response, error)", but that leads to the following error messages:
Value of type 'RestResponse?' has no member 'context'
Value of type 'RestResponse?' has no member 'output'
And with "(error, response)", it leads to the following error:
Value of type 'WatsonError?' (aka 'Optional') has no member 'output'
Value of type 'WatsonError?' (aka 'Optional') has no member 'context'
Here is documentation on .message function:
first screenshot
second screenshot
Thanks in advance for the help!

RestResponse contains a result of the .message call in a field called result. So to access the output or context, use response.result.output and response.result.context.

It would be helpful if you gave more description like:
Swift version you are using to compile your target
Line number of the error
That being said, I think your problem is in the nested .message method, i've copied your code above but deleted some lines to try and make it clear (at least what I am proposing), you may have added the second parameter to the callback in the first call to .message but had forgotten to do so in the second (nested) call, the one where you pass in the request. So you might have added the second, error parameter in the first call but got the same exact error message for a missing parameter because you forgot to do the same thing for the nested call. I hope this helps :)
// start a conversation
assistant.message(workspaceID: workspace) { response, error in
let input = InputData(text: "turn the radio on")
let request = MessageRequest(input: input, context: response.context)
assistant.message(workspaceID: workspace, request: request) { response, error in
print("Response: \(response.output.text.joined())")
}
}

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*/
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statements
}
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Swift Compiler Error when accessing array - Exit code 254

I am quite new to swift and got a pretty weird compiler error:
Command
/Applications/Xcode6-Beta5.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/swiftc
failed with exit code 254
The Error occours when I ad the following lines to my code:
var response = HoopsClient.instance().collections["posts"]
response = response["_id"]
when I remove the second line everything compiles fine. I don't get it ^^
edit: The reason is probably that "response" is of type "AnyObject" according to the compiler... but shouldn't that be detected by xcode or give me a runtime error instead of this compiler error?
Try casting response as the type you're expecting. From what you're trying to do, instance().collections I would assume that it should return some type of dictionary.
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However
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I know this is a long shot, but hope it helps.
Swift tends to throw error when it cant infer the type of an object, what you could probably do is add a conditional cast as follows
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