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Andrew Lundy
13,269 PointsHow does it know to get the text from .returnTrip?
Hello. I'm insanely confused on how exactly
if let page = page { print(page.story.text) }
connects directly to the .returnTrip text string.
I understand the setting up of the PageController. I also I understand (I think) that pageController.page = Adventure.story is setting up a value to be accessed. But what I don't get is the page.story.text. Because, if the page of the PageController is set to Adventure.story, then when you look at the Adventure struct, the only 'story' is the type property of story, which inherits Page.
Is this because Adventure.story has class inheritance of Page? Therefore, when print (page.story.text) is called, it's actually accessing the story constant of Page, and then accessing the 'text' variable in the Story file? But even then, how does it now to print out only the .returnTrip text? Shouldn't it print out all of the text in the 'text' variable?
If you can please help me out with this logic, I really don't want to progress in the course until I understand this.
2 Answers
Joshua Hawthorne
18,523 Pointstext is a computed property from the enum Story. When you type page.story.text you are first getting a reference to the stored property page, then a reference to enum story that is a stored property in the page instance, and finally to the computed property text that is part of the Story enum extension.
When the segue is triggered, the page is initialized with the enum member .returnTrip. Looking at the computed property text we see that the .returnTrip case returns "On your surface trip blah blah blah..."
How do I know its initialized with .returnTrip? This bit of code right here:
static var story: Page {
let returnTrip = Page(story: .returnTrip)
//Code that adds choices
return returnTrip
}
Joshua Hawthorne
18,523 PointsNo problem. You don't need to always have both a getter and setter, you only need to have a getter. If you don't have a setter, the computed property you are getting is sort of like a 'let' (a constant). You'll get more familiar with it as you write more code.
It doesn't really make sense in this case to change the text of the story, so we've only implemented a getter here.
Andrew Lundy
13,269 PointsAndrew Lundy
13,269 PointsAwesome, thank you so much!
You don't have to answer this, BUT, why do we not set a getter and setter in this computed property? Isn't that a must have for computed properties?
Thanks again!