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Swift 4 Protocol-Oriented Programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470032
Length 210 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting with the Protocol FREE CHAPTER 2. Our Type Choices 3. Extensions 4. Generics 5. Object-Oriented Programming 6. Protocol-Oriented Programming 7. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift 8. Case Studies

Protocol inheritance

Protocols can inherit requirements from one or more additional protocols and then add additional requirements. The following code shows the syntax for protocol inheritance:

protocol ProtocolThree: ProtocolOne, ProtocolTwo { 
  // Add requirements here 
} 

The syntax for protocol inheritance is very similar to class inheritance in Swift, except that we are able to inherit from more than one protocol. Let's see how protocol inheritance works. We will use the FullName protocol that we defined earlier and create a new protocol named Person:

protocol Person: FullName {  
  var age: Int {get set} 
} 

Now, when we create a type that conforms to the Person protocol, we must implement the requirements defined in the Person protocol, as well as the requirements defined in the FullName protocol. As an example, we could define a Student structure that conforms to the Person protocol, as shown in the following code:

struct Student: Person {  
  var firstName = ""  
  var lastName = ""  
  var age = 0 
 
  func getFullName() -> String {  
    return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
  } 
} 

Note that in the Student structure, we implemented the requirements defined in both the FullName and Person protocols. However, the only protocol specified in the structure definition was the Person protocol. We only needed to list the Person protocol because it inherited all the requirements from the FullName protocol.

Now let's look at a very important concept in the protocol-oriented programming paradigm: Protocol composition.

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Swift 4 Protocol-Oriented Programming - Third Edition
Published in: Oct 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788470032
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