Read-Only properties

Question

I need help with "read-only" in swift. I tried various ways, but simply couldn't figure out how to compile it without errors. Here's the question and what i thought of.

Create a read-only computed property named isEquilateral that checks to see whether all three sides of a triangle are the same length and returns true if they are and false if they are not.

var isEquilateral: Int {

}

Answer 1

Something like this? (as suggested by @vacawama in the comments)

struct Triangle {
    let edgeA: Int
    let edgeB: Int
    let edgeC: Int

    var isEquilateral: Bool {
        return (edgeA, edgeB) == (edgeB, edgeC)
    }
}

Let's test it

let triangle = Triangle(edgeA: 5, edgeB: 5, edgeC: 5)
triangle.isEquilateral // true

or

let triangle = Triangle(edgeA: 2, edgeB: 2, edgeC: 1)
triangle.isEquilateral // false

Answer 2

If you want a "read-only" stored property, use private(set):

private(set) var isEquilateral = false

If it is a property calculated from other properties, then, yes, use computed property:

var isEquilateral: Bool {
    return a == b && b == c
}

---

For the sake of completeness, and probably needless to say, if it is a constant, you’d just use let:

let isEquilateral = true

Or

struct Triangle {
    let a: Double
    let b: Double
    let c: Double

    let isEquilateral: Bool

    init(a: Double, b: Double, c: Double) {
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        self.c = c

        isEquilateral = (a == b) && (b == c)
    }
}

Answer 3

A read-only property is a property with getter but no setter. It is always used to return a value.

class ClassA {
    var one: Int {
        return 1
    }
    var two: Int {
        get { return 2 }
    }
    private(set) var three:Int = 3
    init() {
        one = 1//Cannot assign to property: 'one' is a get-only property
        two = 2//Cannot assign to property: 'two' is a get-only property
        three = 3//allowed to write
        print(one)//allowed to read
        print(two)//allowed to read
        print(three)//allowed to read
    }
}
class ClassB {
    init() {
        var a = ClassA()
        a.one = 1//Cannot assign to property: 'one' is a get-only property
        a.two = 2//Cannot assign to property: 'two' is a get-only property
        a.three = 3//Cannot assign to property: 'three' setter is inaccessible
        print(a.one)//allowed to read
        print(a.two)//allowed to read
        print(a.three)//allowed to read
    }
}