Type 'AnyObject' does not conform to protocol 'SequenceType'

Question

func loadThumbnails() {

    let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSSearchPathDirectory.DocumentDirectory, NSSearchPathDomainMask.UserDomainMask, true)
    let documentsDirectory:NSString = paths[0] as NSString
    var error:NSError?
    let fileManager = NSFileManager()
    let directoryContent:AnyObject = fileManager.contentsOfDirectoryAtPath(documentsDirectory, error: &error)!

    thumbnails = [QSPhotoInfo]()

    for item:AnyObject in directoryContent {
        let fileName = item as NSString
        if fileName.hasPrefix(kThumbnailImagePrefix) {
            let image = loadImageFromDocumentsDirectory(fileName)
            var photoInfo = QSPhotoInfo()
            photoInfo.thumbnail = image;
            photoInfo.thumbnailFileName = fileName
            thumbnails += photoInfo
        }
    }
}

the compile error is below:

Type 'AnyObject' does not conform to protocol 'SequenceType'

what does this menas?

who can help me ,thks a lot!!!!

Answer 1

Apple states in The Swift Programming Language:

The for-in loop performs a set of statements for each item in a range, sequence, collection, or progression.

Right now, directoryContent is just conforming to protocol AnyObject, so you can't use for loops over it. If you want to do so, you have to do something similar to the following:

for item in directoryContent as [AnyObject] {
    //Do stuff
}