Chaining swift combine publishers and receiving each result

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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)
    }
}
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1 Answers

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()
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