Checking for class and conformance to a protocol [duplicate] - ios

In Objective-C, it's possible to specify a class conforming to a protocol as a method parameter. For example, I could have a method that only allows a UIViewController that conforms to UITableViewDataSource:
- (void)foo:(UIViewController<UITableViewDataSource> *)vc;
I can't find a way to do this in Swift (perhaps it's not possible yet). You can specify multiple protocols using func foo(obj: protocol<P1, P2>), but how do you require that the object is of a particular class as well?

You can define foo as a generic function and use type constraints to require both a class and a protocol.
Swift 4
func foo<T: UIViewController & UITableViewDataSource>(vc: T) {
.....
}
Swift 3 (works for Swift 4 also)
func foo<T: UIViewController>(vc:T) where T:UITableViewDataSource {
....
}
Swift 2
func foo<T: UIViewController where T: UITableViewDataSource>(vc: T) {
// access UIViewController property
let view = vc.view
// call UITableViewDataSource method
let sections = vc.numberOfSectionsInTableView?(tableView)
}

In Swift 4 you can achieve this with the new & sign:
let vc: UIViewController & UITableViewDataSource

The Swift book documentation suggests that you use type constraints with a where clause:
func someFunction<C1: SomeClass where C1:SomeProtocol>(inParam: C1) {}
This guarantees that "inParam" is of type "SomeClass" with a condition that it also adheres to "SomeProtocol". You even have the power to specify multiple where clauses delimited by a comma:
func itemsMatch<C1: SomeProtocol, C2: SomeProtocol where C1.ItemType == C2.ItemType, C1.ItemType: SomeOtherProtocol>(foo: C1, bar: C2) -> Bool { return true }

Swift 5:
func foo(vc: UIViewController & UITableViewDataSource) {
...
}
So essentially Jeroen's answer above.

With Swift 3, you can do the following:
func foo(_ dataSource: UITableViewDataSource) {
self.tableView.dataSource = dataSource
}
func foo(_ delegateAndDataSource: UITableViewDelegate & UITableViewDataSource) {
//Whatever
}

What about this way?:
protocol MyProtocol {
func getTableViewDataSource() -> UITableViewDataSource
func getViewController() -> UIViewController
}
class MyVC : UIViewController, UITableViewDataSource, MyProtocol {
// ...
func getTableViewDataSource() -> UITableViewDataSource {
return self
}
func getViewController() -> UIViewController {
return self
}
}
func foo(_ vc:MyProtocol) {
vc.getTableViewDataSource() // working with UITableViewDataSource stuff
vc.getViewController() // working with UIViewController stuff
}

Update for Swift 5:
func yourFun<V: YourClass>(controller: V) where V: YourProtocol

Note in September 2015: This was an observation in the early days of Swift.
It seems to be impossible. Apple has this annoyance in some of their APIs as well. Here is one example from a newly introduced class in iOS 8 (as of beta 5):
UIInputViewController's textDocumentProxy property:
Defined in Objective-C as follows:
#property(nonatomic, readonly) NSObject<UITextDocumentProxy> *textDocumentProxy;
and in Swift:
var textDocumentProxy: NSObject! { get }
Link to Apple' documentation:
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/iOS/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIInputViewController_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UIInputViewController/textDocumentProxy

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View Controller only Protocol has no access to View Controller properties

I have a UIViewController only protocol
protocol VCProtocol where Self: UIViewController {}
I have a function with VCProtocol parameter. Inside the function I can not access any property of UIViewController
func testFunction(vcProtocol: VCProtocol) {
// vcProtocol.view ‼️ error: Value of type 'VCProtocol' has no member 'view'
}
Though I can cast the protocol parameter to UIViewController and then access the property like this:
func testFunction(vcProtocol: VCProtocol) {
(vcProtocol as! UIViewController).view
}
Is this is the way? Do we have any better way?
You can use the & operator to combine protocols
protocol VCProtocol where Self: UIViewController {}
func testFunction(vcProtocol: VCProtocol & UIViewController) {
let view = vcProtocol.view
}
It seems like this is now supported properly from Swift 5. You can try it Xcode 10.2 beta 4. For older versions, you would have to resort to #Ricky Mo's solution.
protocol VCProtocol: UIViewController {
func testFunction(vcProtocol: VCProtocol)
}
class A: UIViewController, VCProtocol {
func testFunction(vcProtocol: VCProtocol) {
debugPrint(vcProtocol.view)
}
}
From the notes,
Protocols can now constrain their conforming types to those that
subclass a given class. Two equivalent forms are supported:
protocol MyView: UIView { /*...*/ }
protocol MyView where Self: UIView { /*...*/ }
Swift 4.2 accepted the second form, but it wasn’t fully implemented
and could sometimes crash at compile time or runtime. (SR-5581)
(38077232)

Protocol with "where" causes crash [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Swift protocol with "where Self" clause
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Closed 4 years ago.
I want to use Protocol to hide type of classes which is subclass of UIViewController. So I create a Protocol looks like this:
protocol Displayable where Self: UIViewController {
func display()
}
and the concrete class:
class DisplayableViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
}
extension DisplayableViewController: Displayable {
func display() {
_ = view
}
}
Everything goes well, until I perfom display() at runtime:
class ViewController: UIViewController {
private var displayable: Displayable!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
displayable = DisplayableViewController()
displayable.display()
}
}
Crashes occurs at _ = view.
Thread 1: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x0)
Remove where Self: UIViewController or make (displayable as? DisplayableViewController).display() solve this problem, but why?
And I just want subclass of UIViewController to conform it.
Here is the demo to reproduce it.
Swift version: 4.2
Make your type a composite of UIViewController and Displayable.
For example:
private var displayable: (UIViewController & Displayable)!
Here is a link to some docs that contain relevant info on composite types:
https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/ReferenceManual/Types.html

How to add protocol type as subview

So I wrote a simple protocol:
protocol PopupMessageType{
var cancelButton: UIButton {get set}
func cancel()
}
and have a customView:
class XYZMessageView: UIView, PopupMessageType {
...
}
and then I currently have:
class PopUpViewController: UIViewController {
//code...
var messageView : CCPopupMessageView!
private func setupUI(){
view.addSubview(messageView)
}
}
But what I want to do is:
class PopUpViewController: UIViewController {
//code...
var messageView : PopupMessageType!
private func setupUI(){
view.addSubview(messageView) // ERROR
}
}
ERROR I get:
Cannot convert value of type 'PopupMessageType!' to expected argument
type 'UIView'
EDIT:
I'm on Swift 2.3!
Change the type of property messageView to (UIView & PopupMessageType)!
I mean
class PopUpViewController: UIViewController {
//code...
var messageView : (UIView & PopupMessageType)!
private func setupUI(){
view.addSubview(messageView) // ERROR
}
}
In Swift 4 you can do this:
typealias PopupMessageViewType = UIView & PopupMessageType
And then use PopupMessageViewType as the type of the variable.
DISCLAIMER: I do not have the swift 2.3 compiler anymore since swift 4 is the new normal for iOS development. The following code may possibly need tweaks to get it working in swift 2.3
Essentially we will be making a 2x1 mux where the two inputs are the same object. The output depends on whether you set the mux to choose the first or the second one.
// The given protocol
protocol PopupMessageType{
var cancelButton: UIButton {get set}
func cancel()
}
// The object that conforms to that protocol
class XYZMessageView: UIView, PopupMessageType {
var cancelButton: UIButton = UIButton()
func cancel() {
}
}
// The mux that lets you choose the UIView subclass or the PopupMessageType
struct ObjectPopupMessageTypeProtocolMux<VIEW_TYPE: UIView> {
let view: VIEW_TYPE
let popupMessage: PopupMessageType
}
// A class that holds and instance to the ObjectPopupMessageTypeProtocolMux
class PopUpViewController: UIViewController {
var messageWrapper : ObjectPopupMessageTypeProtocolMux<UIView>!
private func setupUI(){
view.addSubview(messageWrapper.view)
}
}
//...
let vc = PopUpViewController() // create the view controller
let inputView = XYZMessageView() // create desired view
// create the ObjectPopupMessageTypeProtocolMux
vc.messageWrapper = ObjectPopupMessageTypeProtocolMux(view: inputView, popupMessage: inputView) //<-- 1
vc.messageWrapper.view // retreive the view
vc.messageWrapper.popupMessage.cancel() // access the protocol's methods
vc.messageWrapper.popupMessage.cancelButton // get the button
1) I input the "inputView" twice for the initializer of ObjectPopupMessageTypeProtocolMux. They are the same class instance, but they get casted to different types.
I hope this helps you get to where you wanna go in swift 2.3

How to create constraint on protocol

I tried to create protocol which can be only implemented by classes which inherit from UIView, what was my surprise when this code compiles without errors (in Swift 3.0):
protocol TestsProtocol {
func test()
}
extension TestsProtocol where Self: UIView { }
class FooClass: TestsProtocol {
func test() {
}
}
We can see that FooClass don't inherit from UIView, using protocol extension I wan't to force that only classes which inherit from UIView can implement it.
As far as I remember this would not compile in Swift 2.1
You cannot do this in Swift. The extension syntax does something else:
extension TestsProtocol where Self: UIView {
func useful() {
// do something useful
}
}
now any class which implements TestsProtocol and is a UIView (or subclass) also has the useful() function.
You can do that easily by limit protocol from be extendable from any type other than UIView :
protocol TestsProtocol:UIView {
func test()
}
class FooClass: TestsProtocol {
func test() {
}
}
So this will cause compile error
'TestsProtocol' requires that 'FooClass' inherit from 'UIView'

Can't conform to obj-c protocol in Swift

I'm creating an iOS app with Swift. I discovered an animation I'd like to implement in my table view, but the code is in Objective-C.
Repository: https://github.com/recruit-mp/RMPZoomTransitionAnimator
I have successfully bridged Obj-C code to Swift but can't seem to conform to a required protocol.
The protocol:
#protocol RMPZoomTransitionAnimating <NSObject>
#required
- (UIImageView *)transitionSourceImageView;
- (UIColor *)transitionSourceBackgroundColor;
- (CGRect)transitionDestinationImageViewFrame;
#end
My Swift implementation:
First class that implements the protocol:
class ChallengeViewController: UIViewController, RMPZoomTransitionAnimating
func transitionSourceImageView() -> UIImageView {
return imageView
}
func transitionSourceBackgroundColor() -> UIColor {
return UIColor.whiteColor()
}
func transitionDestinationImageViewFrame() -> CGRect {
return imageView.frame
}
Second class:
class ChallengeTableViewController: UITableViewController, RMPZoomTransitionAnimating
func transitionSourceImageView() -> UIImageView {
return imageForTransition!
}
func transitionSourceBackgroundColor() -> UIColor {
return UIColor.whiteColor()
}
func transitionDestinationImageViewFrame() -> CGRect {
return imageFrame!
}
This check that occurs before animating always fails:
Protocol *animating = #protocol(RMPZoomTransitionAnimating);
BOOL doesNotConfirmProtocol = ![self.sourceTransition conformsToProtocol:animating] || ![self.destinationTransition conformsToProtocol:animating];
I've read this topic How to create class methods that conform to a protocol shared between Swift and Objective-C? but didn't found any help
Any clues would be really appreciated
Swift classes by themselves are not (by default) Objective-C Compatible.
You get compatibility by either inheriting from NSObject or adding #objc in front of your class. I suspect this "may" be your issues - but I unfortunately can't test it at the moment.
You may also have to add a few initializers like in your case one from NSCoder or something - I don't unfortunately recall off the top of my head - and I don't have access to Xcode right now.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/BuildingCocoaApps/MixandMatch.html
Try:
#objc
class ChallengeViewController: UIViewController, RMPZoomTransitionAnimating
func transitionSourceImageView() -> UIImageView {
return imageView
}
func transitionSourceBackgroundColor() -> UIColor {
return UIColor.whiteColor()
}
func transitionDestinationImageViewFrame() -> CGRect {
return imageView.frame
}
This will tell the compiler your class is objective-c compatible

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