How can I write my code with a failable initializer?

Question

HI. Pasan said to practice once we finished the enumerations and optionals course.
I wrote this code:

struct superHero{
    let name: String
    let power: String
    let city: String?

    func new() -> superHero?{
        if name != nil, power != nil, city != nil{
            return superHero(name: name, power: power, city: city)
        }else{
            return nil
        }
    }
}

//Instances
let someHero = superHero(name: "Spider Man", power: "Shoots spider webs", city: "New York")
let anotherHero = superHero(name: "Wonder Woman", power: "Amazon fighting skills", city: nil)

First of all, how can I write this code with a failable initializer? Second, is this object considered "safe"?

Answer 1 · 2017-07-31T02:53:43Z

July 31, 2017 2:53am

In your code since name and power are not optional they must have a value, you will probably get a warning in Xcode saying that the value will always be true.

Here is how you write it with a failable initializer

struct superHero{

    let name: String
    let power: String
    let city: String?

    init?(name: String, power: String, city: String) {
        if city.isEmpty { return nil }
        self.name = name
        self.power = power
        self.city = city
    }
}

let someHero = superHero(name: "Spider Man", power: "Shoots spider webs", city: "New York")
let anotherHero = superHero(name: "Wonder Woman", power: "Amazon fighting skills", city: "")

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