Swift dictionary get key for value

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Swift 3: a more performant approach for the special case of bijective dictionaries

If the reverse dictionary lookup use case covers a bijective dictionary with a one to one relationship between keys and values, an alternative approach to the collection-exhaustive filter operation would be using a quicker short-circuiting approach to find some key, if it exists.

extension Dictionary where Value: Equatable {
    func someKey(forValue val: Value) -> Key? {
        return first(where: { $1 == val })?.key
    }
}

Example usage:

let dict: [Int: String] = [1: "one", 2: "two", 4: "four"]

if let key = dict.someKey(forValue: "two") { 
    print(key)
} // 2

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