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iOS Swift Enums and Structs Structs and their Methods Initializers

Josh Schlabach
Josh Schlabach
1,771 Points
Posted by Josh Schlabach
Josh Schlabach
1,771 Points

Why are initializers used?

I'm confused. Why do we need an initializer in our struct? Can someone give me a real life world example? Just a little confused.

2 Answers

Fernando Claussen
Fernando Claussen
9,324 Points
Fernando Claussen
Fernando Claussen
9,324 Points

As the video showed. Your struct have an initializer by default. However, that initializer requires you to specify all the values. If you want to avoid that behaviour you need to specify your own init function. When you do that, the default init is overridden and your function will be used instead. On that function you can ask for specific values.

Structs are similar to objects.

Thomas Katalenas
Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Points
Thomas Katalenas
Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Points

The parameters to init( param1: value, param2: value) can be passed through so you can pass through multiple values to the stored property of your struct. it is interesting, that you can do this easily with enums with this new swift protocol.