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Object???Oriented Programming with Swift 2

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785885693
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Object–Oriented Programming with Swift 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Objects from the Real World to Playground 2. Structures, Classes, and Instances 3. Encapsulation of Data with Properties 4. Inheritance, Abstraction, and Specialization 5. Contract Programming with Protocols 6. Maximization of Code Reuse with Generic Code 7. Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming 8. Extending and Building Object-Oriented Code Exercise Answers Index

Declaring associated types in protocols


Now, we want to declare a PartyProtocol protocol and make the generic Party<T> class conform to this new protocol. The main challenge is to specify the type for both the method arguments and returned values. In the generic class, we will use the generic type parameter, but protocols don't allow us to use them.

Associated types allow us to solve the problem. We can declare one or more associated types as part of the protocol definition. In this case, we just need one associated type to provide us with a placeholder name—also known as alias—to a type that we will use as part of the protocol and that will be specified during the protocol implementation—that is, when we declare a class that conforms to the protocol. It is just necessary to use the typealias keyword followed by the desired name for the associated type, and then, we can use the name in our requirements' declarations.

The following lines show the declaration of the PartyProtocol protocol...

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