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Mastering Swift 2

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 2

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">At their Worldwide Developer’s conference (WWDC) in 2015, Apple announced Swift 2, a major update to the innovative programming language they first unveiled to the world the year before. Swift 2 features exciting enhancements to the original iteration of Swift, acting, as Apple put it themselves as “a successor to the C and Objective-C languages.” – This book demonstrates how to get the most from these new features, and gives you the skills and knowledge you need to develop dynamic iOS and OS X applications.<br /> </span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Learn how to harness the newest features of Swift 2 todevelop advanced applications on a wide range of platforms with this cutting-edge development guide. Exploring and demonstrating how to tackle advanced topics such as Objective-C interoperability, ARC, closures, and concurrency, you’ll develop your Swift expertise and become even more fluent in this vital and innovative language. With examples that demonstrate how to put the concepts into practice, and design patterns and best practices, you’ll be writing better iOS and OSX applications in with a new level of sophistication and control.</span></p>
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Mastering Swift 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Taking the First Steps with Swift
2
Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators
Index

Selecting a closure based on results


In the final example, we will pass two closures to a method, and then depending on some logic, one, or possibly both, of the closures will be executed. Generally, one of the closures is called if the method was successfully executed and the other closure is called if the method failed.

Let's start off by creating a class that will contain a method that will accept two closures and then execute one of the closures based on the defined logic. We will name this class TestClass. Here is the code for the TestClass class:

class TestClass {
  typealias ResultsClosure = ((String) -> Void)

  func isGreater(numOne: Int, numTwo:Int, successHandler: ResultsClosure, failureHandler: ResultsClosure) {
    if numOne > numTwo {
      successHandler("\(numOne) is greater than \(numTwo)")
    }
    else {
      failureHandler("\(numOne) is not greater than \(numTwo)")
    }

  }
}

We begin this class by creating a type alias that defines the closure that we will use...