ViewForAnnotation confusion and setting pinColor iteratively

Question

The goal is to adjust the colors of the contacts to some values ​​stored in the structure array.

For some help here, I implemented the following delegate method, viewForAnnotation, and works great on this delegate method in a loop based on the size of the structure's data array. Thus, it works if I want to set all contacts to the same color, for example purple (this is the commented line in the code below).

The problem is that when I set the switch to set the color based on the value in my array, it goes through this code, but doesn't take into account any of the case values ​​to set it to an alternate color, and everything goes to the red pin ( apparently by default). I printed out the status and debugged it to find out that it enters the switch and sets pinColor accordingly, but they don't seem to stick.

func mapView(aMapView: MKMapView!,
    viewForAnnotation annotation: MKAnnotation!) -> MKAnnotationView! {

       let theindex = mystructindex  // grab the index from a global to be used below

        if annotation is MKUserLocation {
            //return nil so map view draws "blue dot" for standard user location
            return nil
        }

        let reuseId = "pin"
        var pinView = aMapView.dequeueReusableAnnotationViewWithIdentifier(reuseId) as? MKPinAnnotationView

        if pinView == nil {
            //println("Pinview was nil")
            pinView = MKPinAnnotationView(annotation: annotation, reuseIdentifier: reuseId)
            pinView!.canShowCallout = true
            pinView!.animatesDrop = true

            // Preventive if to keep this from being called beyond my arrays index value as the delegate getting called beyond the for loop for some unknown reason

            if (theindex < MySupplierData.count) {

                // Set the pin color based on the status value in MySupplierData structure array
                switch MySupplierData[mystructindex].status  {

                case 0,1:
                    println("Case 0 or 1 - setting to Red")
                    pinView!.pinColor = .Red  // Needs help, show red pin
                case 2:
                    println("Case 2 - Setting to Green")
                    pinView!.pinColor = .Green  // Looking Good 
                case 3:
                    println("Case 3 - Setting to Purple")
                    pinView!.pinColor = .Purple  // Could use a follow-up
                default:
                    println("Case default - Should Never Happen")
                    break;

                }   // end switch
            } // end if

            // pinView!.pinColor = .Purple  // This works fine without the switch and respects any color I set it to.
        }
        else {
            pinView!.annotation = annotation
        }

        return pinView
}

Inside the for loop inside the ViewController, I call this as follows, but I do nothing with the return.

        // previous to this I setup some Titles and Subtitle which work fine
        self.theMapView.addAnnotation(myAnnotation)
        // Call to my mapview   
        mapView(theMapView, viewForAnnotation: myAnnotation)

I am not doing anything with Pinview return - I didn’t think I needed it, but all the pins are painted red at this moment when using the switch code. Essentially, I have to skip something.

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7-8-14 Updates to troubleshoot revised code for one great help / tutoring at Anna. Tks!

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class CustomMapPinAnnotation : NSObject, MKAnnotation {
  var coordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2D
  var title: String
  var subtitle: String
  var status: Int

  init(coordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2D, title: String, subtitle: String, status: Int) {
    self.coordinate = coordinate
    self.title = title
    self.subtitle = subtitle
    self.status = status

  }
}

mapView - CustomMapPinAnnotation:

func mapView(aMapView: MKMapView!,
    viewForAnnotation annotation: CustomMapPinAnnotation!) -> MKAnnotationView! {

        let reuseId = "pin"          
        var pinView = aMapView.dequeueReusableAnnotationViewWithIdentifier(reuseId) as? MKPinAnnotationView

        if pinView == nil {
            //println("Pinview was nil")
            pinView = MKPinAnnotationView(annotation: annotation, reuseIdentifier: reuseId)
            pinView!.canShowCallout = true
            pinView!.animatesDrop = true

            // Code to catch my custom CustomMapPinAnnotation so we can check the status and set the color               
            if annotation.isKindOfClass(CustomMapPinAnnotation)
            {
                println("FOUND OUR CustomMapPinAnnotation CLASS IN mapView")
                println(" Custom Title = \(annotation.title)")
                println(" Custom status passed = \(annotation.status)")
                switch annotation.status {

                case 0,1:
                    println("Case 0 or 1 - Setting to Red")
                    pinView!.pinColor = .Red
                case 2:
                    println("Case 2 - Setting to Green")
                    pinView!.pinColor = .Green
                case 3:
                    println("Case 3 - Setting to Purple")
                    pinView!.pinColor = .Purple 
                default:
                    println("Case default - Should Never Happen")
                    break;
                }  // switch   
            }  // if     
        }
        else {
            pinView!.annotation = annotation
        }
        return pinView
} //func mapView

viewDidLoad For

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    // setup the region and Span 
    var theSpan:MKCoordinateSpan = MKCoordinateSpanMake(latDelta, longDelta)

    // Set the region to the the first element of the structure array.
    var theRegion:MKCoordinateRegion = MKCoordinateRegionMake(CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(MySupplierData[0].latitude, MySupplierData[0].longitude), theSpan)

    // This set the Map Type (Standard, Satellite, Hybrid)
    self.theMapView.mapType = MKMapType.Standard

    // Now loop through the structure data from 1 top the end of the structure to map the data

    var mytitle: String = ""
    var mysubtitle: String = ""
    var myCustomPinAnnotation: CustomMapPinAnnotation

    for mystructindex = 0; mystructindex < MySupplierData.count; ++mystructindex {           
        println("INSIDE SUPPLIER LOOP INDEX = \(mystructindex)" )

        switch MySupplierData[mystructindex].status {
        case 0:
            mytitle =  "(Red) " + MySupplierData[mystructindex].company
        case 1:
            mytitle = "(Red) " + MySupplierData[mystructindex].company
        case 2:
            mytitle = "(Geeen) " + MySupplierData[mystructindex].company
        case 3:
            mytitle = "(Purple) " + MySupplierData[mystructindex].company
        default:
            mytitle = "? " + MySupplierData[mystructindex].company

        }    
        mysubtitle = MySupplierData[mystructindex].subtitle

         // Create the Custom Annotations with my added status code   
        myCustomPinAnnotation = CustomMapPinAnnotation(
            coordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(MySupplierData[mystructindex].latitude,MySupplierData[mystructindex].longitude),
            title: mytitle,        // custom title
            subtitle: mysubtitle,  // custom subtitle
            status: MySupplierData[mystructindex].status)  // status that will drive pin color

        // put this annotation in the view.
        self.theMapView.addAnnotation(myCustomPinAnnotation)
    }  // For

    // This line brings up the display with the specific region in mind, otherwise it seems to default to a US Map.
    self.theMapView.setRegion(theRegion, animated: true)

}  // viewDidLoad

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