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Reputation: 1351

Passing data between two view controllers via a protocol

How to declare and implement a protocol that will return a view's property? E.g. I have an view called mainView and I want it to be able to return an array when another view, customView for example, asks for it. What I'm doing is that I'm declaring a protocol in the mainView implementation file (with a returnTheArray function) and set the customView to adopt this protocol, but I'm stuck at this point. What should I do to get this working correctly? Or there is a more effective/easy/correct way to do this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 692

Answers (1)

Hermann Klecker
Hermann Klecker

Reputation: 14068

The protocol as such is only a declaration of the function/method name, parameters and return values. As a protocol to me is only reasonalbe when it is fulfilled by a number of classes, I personally prefer to declare it in an individual header protocolName.h.

Every class that conforms to the protocol needs to implement the method(s). For my undertanding it is as simple as that.

AClass.h

@itnerface AClass:NSObject { // some properties } // @property statements @end

AClass.m

#include "BClass.h"

@implementation AClass

//@synthesize statements;

- (void) aFunctionFetchingTheArray {

  BClass *bClass = [[BClass alloc] initWithSomething:kParameter];

  NSArray *anArray = [bClass returnTheArray];

  //Do something with it

}

@end

MyProtocol.h

@protocol MyProtocol 

- (NSArray *) returnTheArray;

@end

BClass.h

#include "MyProtocol.h"

@interface BClass <MyProtocol> {
// some properties in interface
}
// some @property
// some methods
@end

BClass.m

#include "BClass.h"  //No need to include MyProtocol.h here too, in this case

- (NSArray *) returnTheArray {
return [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"A", [NSNumber numberWithtInt:1], [UIColor clearColor], somethingElse, evenMore, nil];
}

// more methods

@end

Please correct my if I missed or misspelled something of importance.

Upvotes: 2

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