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Swift 3 Object-Oriented Programming - Second Edition

By : Gaston C. Hillar
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Swift 3 Object-Oriented Programming - Second Edition

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Swift has quickly become one of the most-liked languages and developers’ de-facto choice when building applications that target iOS and macOS. In the new version, the Swift team wants to take its adoption to the next level by making it available for new platforms and audiences. This book introduces the object-oriented paradigm and its implementation in the Swift 3 programming language to help you understand how real-world objects can become part of fundamental reusable elements in the code. This book is developed with XCode 8.x and covers all the enhancements included in Swift 3.0. In addition, we teach you to run most of the examples with the Swift REPL available on macOS and Linux, and with a Web-based Swift sandbox developed by IBM capable of running on any web browser, including Windows and mobile devices. You will organize data in blueprints that generate instances. You’ll work with examples so you understand how to encapsulate and hide data by working with properties and access control. Then, you’ll get to grips with complex scenarios where you use instances that belong to more than one blueprint. You’ll discover the power of contract programming and parametric polymorphism. You’ll combine generic code with inheritance and multiple inheritance. Later, you’ll see how to combine functional programming with object-oriented programming and find out how to refactor your existing code for easy maintenance.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Swift 3 ObjectOriented Programming - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Declaring a protocol to be used as a constraint


We will create an AnimalProtocol protocol to specify the requirements that a type must meet in order to be considered an animal. Then, we will create an Animal base class that conforms to this protocol, and then, we will specialize this class in three subclasses: Dog, Frog, and Lion. Then, we will create a Party class that will be able to work with the instances of any class that conforms to the AnimalProtocol protocol through generics. We will work with a party of dogs, a party of frogs, and a party of lions.

Then, we will create a DeeJayProtocol protocol and generate a HorseDeeJay class that conforms to this new protocol. We will create a subclass of the Party class named PartyWithDeeJay, which will use generics to work with the instances of any type that conforms to the AnimalProtocol protocol and the instances of any type that conforms to the DeeJaypProtocol interface. We will work with a party of dogs with a DJ.

Note

In this case, we will...