Protocols

Introduction

Protocols are a way of specifying how to use an object. They describe a set of properties and methods which a class, structure, or enum should provide, although protocols pose no restrictions on the implementation.

Remarks

A Swift protocol is a collection of requirements that conforming types must implement. The protocol may then be used in most places where a type is expected, for example Arrays and generic requirements.

Protocol members always share the same access qualifier as the whole protocol, and cannot be specified separately. Although a protocol could restrict access with getter or setter requirements, as per examples above.

For more information about protocols, see The Swift Programming Language.

Objective-C protocols are similar to Swift protocols.

Protocols are also comparable to Java interfaces.