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iOS Object-Oriented Swift Inheritance Overriding Methods

Overriding Methods challenge

Our RoundButton class should have its own implementation of the incrementBy method. Override the incrementBy method in the RoundButton class and default the points parameter to 7.0. Any help?

Button.swift
class Button {
  var width: Double
  var height: Double

  init(width:Double, height:Double){
    self.width = width
    self.height = height
  }

  func incrementBy(points: Double){
    width += points
    height += points
  }
}

class RoundButton: Button {

  override func incrementBy(points: 7.0) -> Double{
    width += points
    height += points

    return super.incrementBy(points)
  }

  var cornerRadius: Double = 5.0
}

1 Answer

Jhoan Arango
Jhoan Arango
14,575 Points

Hello : Jonas Kristensen

I am going to paste your code, and below it, I will past the answer and give you notes within both to better explain.

Your Code:

class Button {
  var width: Double
  var height: Double

  init(width:Double, height:Double){
    self.width = width
    self.height = height
  }

  func incrementBy(points: Double){ // Method Signature 
    width += points
    height += points
  }
}

class RoundButton: Button {

  override func incrementBy(points: 7.0) -> Double{ // Method Signature not the same as superclass, this one has a return type, when the super class signature does not have a return type. 
    width += points
    height += points

    return super.incrementBy(points) // Not needed 
  }

  var cornerRadius: Double = 5.0
}

Answer to Challenge

class Button {
  var width: Double
  var height: Double

  init(width:Double, height:Double){
    self.width = width
    self.height = height
  }

  func incrementBy(points: Double){ // Method signature
    width += points
    height += points
  }
}
// On your RoundButton Class you give a default value by first giving it a type, then it’s value
// Also since the name of the parameter “points” is optional, you have to add an underscore. 
// otherwise you would have to explicitly give it a name in its super class: (#points: Double). This won’t work in the challenge tho.
// also remember that in order to override a method, it’s method signature must be the same.


class RoundButton: Button {
override func incrementBy(_ points: Double = 7.0){ // Method signature
    width += points
    height += points
  }
  var cornerRadius: Double = 5.0
}

Hope this clears any doubts you may have, any other questions please ask :)

Happy learning

Thansk a lot!!!!