Delegates in swift?

Question

How does one go about making a delegate, i.e. NSUserNotificationCenterDelegate in swift?

Answer 1

It is not that different from obj-c. First, you have to specify the protocol in your class declaration, like following:

class MyClass: NSUserNotificationCenterDelegate

The implementation will look like following:

// NSUserNotificationCenterDelegate implementation
func userNotificationCenter(center: NSUserNotificationCenter, didDeliverNotification notification: NSUserNotification) {
    //implementation
}

func userNotificationCenter(center: NSUserNotificationCenter, didActivateNotification notification: NSUserNotification) {
    //implementation
}

func userNotificationCenter(center: NSUserNotificationCenter, shouldPresentNotification notification: NSUserNotification) -> Bool {
    //implementation
    return true
}

Of course, you have to set the delegate. For example:

NSUserNotificationCenter.defaultUserNotificationCenter().delegate = self;

Answer 2

Simple Example:

protocol Work: class {
    func doSomething()
}

class Manager {
    weak var delegate: Work?
    func passAlong() {
        delegate?.doSomething()
    }
}

class Employee: Work {
    func doSomething() {
        print("Working on it")
    }
}

let manager = Manager()
let developer = Employee()
manager.delegate = developer
manager.passAlong() // PRINTS: Working on it

Answer 3

DELEGATES IN SWIFT 2

I am explaining with example of Delegate with two viewControllers.In this case, SecondVC Object is sending data back to first View Controller.

Class with Protocol Declaration

protocol  getDataDelegate  {
    func getDataFromAnotherVC(temp: String)
}


import UIKit
class SecondVC: UIViewController {

    var delegateCustom : getDataDelegate?
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
     }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }
    @IBAction func backToMainVC(sender: AnyObject) {
      //calling method defined in first View Controller with Object  
      self.delegateCustom?.getDataFromAnotherVC("I am sending data from second controller to first view controller.Its my first delegate example. I am done with custom delegates.")
        self.navigationController?.popViewControllerAnimated(true)
    }

}

In First ViewController Protocol conforming is done here:

class ViewController: UIViewController, getDataDelegate

Protocol method definition in First View Controller(ViewController)

func getDataFromAnotherVC(temp : String)
{
  // dataString from SecondVC
   lblForData.text = dataString
}

During push the SecondVC from First View Controller (ViewController)

let objectPush = SecondVC()
objectPush.delegateCustom = self
self.navigationController.pushViewController(objectPush, animated: true)

Answer 4

First class:

protocol NetworkServiceDelegate: class {

    func didCompleteRequest(result: String)
}


class NetworkService: NSObject {

    weak var delegate: NetworkServiceDelegate?

    func fetchDataFromURL(url : String) {
        delegate?.didCompleteRequest(url)
    }
}

Second class:

class ViewController: UIViewController, NetworkServiceDelegate {

    let network = NetworkService()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        network.delegate = self
        network.fetchDataFromURL("Success!")
    }



    func didCompleteRequest(result: String) {
        print(result)
    }


}

Answer 5

The solutions above seemed a little coupled and at the same time avoid reuse the same protocol in other controllers, that's why I've come with the solution that is more strong typed using generic type-erasure.

@noreturn public func notImplemented(){
    fatalError("not implemented yet")
}


public protocol DataChangedProtocol: class{
    typealias DataType

    func onChange(t:DataType)
}

class AbstractDataChangedWrapper<DataType> : DataChangedProtocol{

    func onChange(t: DataType) {
        notImplemented()
    }
}


class AnyDataChangedWrapper<T: DataChangedProtocol> : AbstractDataChangedWrapper<T.DataType>{

    var base: T

    init(_ base: T ){
        self.base = base
    }

    override func onChange(t: T.DataType) {
        base.onChange(t)
    }
}


class AnyDataChangedProtocol<DataType> : DataChangedProtocol{

    var base: AbstractDataChangedWrapper<DataType>

    init<S: DataChangedProtocol where S.DataType == DataType>(_ s: S){
        self.base = AnyDataChangedWrapper(s)
    }

    func onChange(t: DataType) {
        base.onChange(t)
    }
}



class Source : DataChangedProtocol {
    func onChange(data: String) {
        print( "got new value \(data)" )
    }
}


class Target {
    var delegate: AnyDataChangedProtocol<String>?

    func reportChange(data:String ){
        delegate?.onChange(data)
    }
}


var source = Source()
var target = Target()

target.delegate = AnyDataChangedProtocol(source)
target.reportChange("newValue")    

output: got new value newValue

Answer 6

In swift 4.0

Create a delegate on class that need to send some data or provide some functionality to other classes

Like

protocol GetGameStatus {
    var score: score { get }
    func getPlayerDetails()
}

After that in the class that going to confirm to this delegate

class SnakesAndLadders: GetGameStatus {
    func getPlayerDetails() {

 }
}