Delegates in swift?

Question

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

Answer 1

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 : DataChangedProtocol{

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


class AnyDataChangedWrapper : AbstractDataChangedWrapper{

    var base: T

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

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


class AnyDataChangedProtocol : DataChangedProtocol{

    var base: AbstractDataChangedWrapper

    init(_ 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?

    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