Display length of my Dictionary

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@Claude31

I am still a rookie using Swift, so I couldn't really express myself properly.

I am building a website with using leaf template and Swift and I wanted to display some cards using the length of the dictionary. So to do that, I created a struct like below:

struct ArticleList: Encodable {

    var articleName: String

    var articleImage: String

    var articleDescription: String

}

I used an Encodable because the function req.view.render("index", context ) accepts an Encodable context.

So I created an array of ArticleList object (the values would be used to populate the card).

Furthermore, the req.view.render("index", context ) function can only accept a dictionary and so I had to convert my array of object using the map function like below:

  var articles = [ArticleList]()

        // Populate the articles array with some data

        let article1 = ArticleList(articleName: "Article 1", articleImage: "image1.jpg", articleDescription: "Description of Article 1")

        let article2 = ArticleList(articleName: "Article 2", articleImage: "image2.jpg", articleDescription: "Description of Article 2")

        let article3 = ArticleList(articleName: "Article 3", articleImage: "image3.jpg", articleDescription: "Description of Article 3")



        articles.append(article1)

        articles.append(article2)

        articles.append(article3)

        

//  

        print("value: \(articles.count)")

        // Convert the array of ArticleList objects into an array of dictionaries

        let articleDictionaries = articles.map { article in

            return [

                "articleName": article.articleName,

                "articleImage": article.articleImage,

                "articleDescription": article.articleDescription

                

            ]

        }

So I passed the articleDictionaries to a new variable and passed it to the render function and I used the leaf tag to access the list like below:

  //HTML file

#for(planet in articles):

            <li>

                <h2>#(planet.articleName)</h2>

                

            </li>

            #endfor

The above code works and returns articleNames but I tried passing the count as another value to the dictionary, but it throws an error.

See the image below:

So trying to get this value and pass it to the render function is the problem I am currently having.