Compile error: "Reference to member 'value' cannot be resolved without a contextual type"

[broadwaylamb]

The library cannot be compiled with Swift 4.1 because of the error in OpenAPIExample.swift, line 47:

try container.encode(value, forKey: .value) // ERROR: Reference to member 'value' cannot be resolved without a contextual type

That's because the value property is of type Optional<Any>. Prior to Swift 4.1 Optional conformed to the Encodable protocol unconditionally at compile time, but attempting to encode its payload if the payload is not itself Encodable would crash at runtime.

Swift 4.1 introduced conditional conformances, and now this error is caught at compile time, which results in the inability to compile Swiftgger.

My suggestion would be to make the OpenAPIExample class generic:

-public class OpenAPIExample: Encodable
+public class OpenAPIExample<Value: Encodable>: Encodable {

     public private(set) var ref: String?
     public private(set) var summary: String?
     public private(set) var description: String?
-    public private(set) var value: Any?
+    public private(set) var value: Value?
     public private(set) var externalValue: String?

However, I haven't tried this and not sure if it'll work with the rest of the project.

I'm looking forward to be able to use Swiftgger in my Vapor project 😊

[mczachurski]

Fixed in commit db3140b.

It's not perfect solution, however now Swiftgger didn't provide API to set up examples objects in OpenAPI JSON.