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iOS Protocols in Swift Protocol Basics Protocols With Methods

Adam Petritsis
Adam Petritsis
2,942 Points
Posted by Adam Petritsis
Adam Petritsis
2,942 Points

Which is the right way to change the lamp color?

For this task, make WifiLamp adopt the ColorSwitchable protocol. In the implementation of the method, simply set the color of the lamp to the new color.

protocols.swift 
// Declare protocol here
protocol ColorSwitchable {
func switchColor(_ color: Color) -> Color 
}

enum LightState {
  case on, off
}

enum Color {
  case rgb(Double, Double, Double, Double)
  case hsb(Double, Double, Double, Double)
}

class WifiLamp: ColorSwitchable {
  let state: LightState
  var color: Color

  init() {
    self.state = .on
    self.color = .rgb(0,0,0,0)
  }

  func switchColor(_ color: Color) -> Color {

    }

}

1 Answer

Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos
34,969 Points

Adam Petritsis,

There is a little problem in the protocol declaration and that is that the switchColor function doesn't return a Color. Also, in the implementation of the switchColor, you will have to assign the color from the argument to the instance member color. For example:

func switchColor(_ color: Color) {
    self.color = color
}

Fix the protocol declaration and let me know if you have any other questions.

-Dan

Adam Petritsis
Adam Petritsis
2,942 Points
Adam Petritsis
Adam Petritsis
2,942 Points

Thank you Daniel that worked. It had passed the first step of the exercise with the function returning Color, so i thought that was correct.

Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos
34,969 Points

Great! That is probably because Pasan Premaratne is not testing for it in that particular step.