Overriding a stored property in Swift

Question

I noticed that the compiler won\'t let me override a stored property with another stored value (which seems odd):

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Answer 1

Swift does not allow you to override a variable stored property Instead of this you can use computed property

class A {
    var property1 = "A: Stored Property 1"

    var property2: String {
        get {
            return "A: Computed Property 2"
        }
    }

    let property3 = "A: Constant Stored Property 3"

    //let can not be a computed property
    
    func foo() -> String {
        return "A: foo()"
    }
}

class B: A {

    //now it is a computed property
    override var property1: String {

        set { }
        get {
            return "B: overrode Stored Property 1"
        }
    }

    override var property2: String {
        get {
            return "B: overrode Computed Property 2"
        }
    }
    
    override func foo() -> String {
        return "B: foo()"
    }

    //let can not be overrode
}

func testPoly() {
    let a = A()
    
    XCTAssertEqual("A: Stored Property 1", a.property1)
    XCTAssertEqual("A: Computed Property 2", a.property2)
    
    XCTAssertEqual("A: foo()", a.foo())
    
    let b = B()
    XCTAssertEqual("B: overrode Stored Property 1", b.property1)
    XCTAssertEqual("B: overrode Computed Property 2", b.property2)
    
    XCTAssertEqual("B: foo()", b.foo())
    
    //B cast to A
    XCTAssertEqual("B: overrode Stored Property 1", (b as! A).property1)
    XCTAssertEqual("B: overrode Computed Property 2", (b as! A).property2)
    
    XCTAssertEqual("B: foo()", (b as! A).foo())
}

It is more clear when compare with Java, where a class field can not be overrode and does not support polymorphism because is defined in compile time(run efficiently). It is called a variable hiding[About] It is not recommended to use this technics because it is hard to read/support

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