I don`t know why error happen

Question

I want to make that Post protocol inheritance Equatable protocol and Post protocol implements method in Equatable protocol.

I don`t know why error happen....

please help me... I want to know why error happen..

(== method of Equatable protocol in swift 3.0 is static method. therefore, I use static method.)

protocol Post: Equatable {
    var referenceIndex: Int { get set}
    var likeCount: Int { get set}
    var likeStatus: Bool { get set}
    var commentCount: Int { get set}
    var commentStatus: Bool { get set}
}

// here. error happen...
extension Post {
    public static func ==(lhs: Post, rhs: Post) -> Bool {
        return lhs.referenceIndex == rhs.referenceIndex
    }
}

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

Try having a look at this answer

Your == method should not be added in an extension, it should be added globally. Even though it might seem to be a static method, it should still be declared as a global function. You can find a discussion about the details here.

Now...if you had declared your Post as a struct or a class then yes, you could have added a static == method inside your struct/class. However, you have declared a protocol and a protocol can not have any methods.

This answer shows you how to have a protocol implement Equatable.

Armed with all that we can implement your Post protocol and have it implement Equatable like so:

protocol Post: Equatable {
    var referenceIndex: Int { get set}
    var likeCount: Int { get set}
    var likeStatus: Bool { get set}
    var commentCount: Int { get set}
    var commentStatus: Bool { get set}
}

func ==<T : Post>(lhs: T, rhs: T) -> Bool {
    return lhs.referenceIndex == rhs.referenceIndex
}

And then, to prove that things are working:

struct SomePost: Post {
    var referenceIndex: Int
    var likeCount: Int
    var likeStatus: Bool
    var commentCount: Int
    var commentStatus: Bool
}

let somePost1 = SomePost(referenceIndex: 1, likeCount: 1, likeStatus: true, commentCount: 1, commentStatus: true)
let somePost2 = SomePost(referenceIndex: 2, likeCount: 1, likeStatus: true, commentCount: 1, commentStatus: true)
let somePost3 = SomePost(referenceIndex: 1, likeCount: 1, likeStatus: true, commentCount: 1, commentStatus: true)

somePost1 == somePost2 //false
somePost1 == somePost3 //true

Hope that helps you

== method of Equatable protocol in swift 3.0 is static method. therefore, I use static method. — user3427989, Sep 26 '16 at 06:26
@user3427989 I've updated my question to make it work with protocols and tried to explain why it shouldn't be a static method (hope I succeeded :)) — pbodsk, Sep 26 '16 at 07:09

I don`t know why error happen

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