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iOS

Using protocol for passing data

I am trying to make a custom class of a UIView and UIPickerViewDelegates/DataSource, i want to bring some data from UIViewController threw the protocols for example a function which take an array to give data for UIPickerView

so code may be look this:

import UIKit

protocol PickerViewData: NSObjectProtocol {

func getData() -> [String]

}

class CustomPicker: UIView {

let pickerView = UIPickerView()
var delegate:PickerViewData?
var getData:[String] = []

override init(frame: CGRect) {
    super.init(frame: frame)
    setupView()
}

required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
   super.init(coder: aDecoder)

}
func setDelegate(tdelegate:PickerViewData){
    self.delegate = tdelegate

}

private func setupView(){

    pickerView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.bounds.width, height: 200)
    pickerView.delegate = self
    pickerView.dataSource = self
    addSubview(pickerView)

}

}

extension CustomPicker: UIPickerViewDelegate, UIPickerViewDataSource {

func numberOfComponentsInPickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView) -> Int {
    return 1
}

func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView, numberOfRowsInComponent component: Int) -> Int{

    return getData.count
}

func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView, titleForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int) -> String? {

    return getData[row]

}

}

so when UIViewController adopted PickerViewData protocol and return and array with strings threw the function how can i use that function to make my getData array = new array