is it possible to create a generic closure in Swift?
No, because variables and expressions can't be generic. There are only generic functions and generic types.
To clarify: In some languages you can have types with a universal quantifier, like forall a. a -> a
. But in Swift, types cannot have a universal quantifier. So expressions and values cannot be themselves generic. Function declarations and type declarations can be generic, but when you use such a generic function or an instance of such a generic type, some type (which could be a real type or a type variable) is chosen as the type argument, and thereafter the value you get is no longer itself generic.
Probably you need something like this.
Type declaration:
typealias ResultClosure<T> = (ResultCode, String?, T?) -> Void
Function declaration:
func loginUser(userName: String, password: String, resultHandler: ResultClosure<TokenModel>?)
Usage:
NetConnector.shared.loginUser(userName: userName ?? "", password: password ?? "") { (code, message, data) in self.display?.unlockScreen() if code == .success { if let activeToken = data { AppData.shared.userToken = activeToken } self.display?.showHome() } else { self.display?.showError(errorMessage: message) } }
As mentioned, variables in Swift cannot be generic, so creating a closure, whose generic types are specified by the caller is not possible. However, there are workarounds:
With SE-253, it is possible to make arbitrary (nominal) types callable. So instead of declaring a generic closure, we can declare a (non-generic) struct that has a generic callAsFunction
method:
struct MyFunc { func callAsFunction<T>(_ i: T) -> T { return i }}
Now, we can declare a non-generic variable that we can call with a generic value:
let myFunc = MyFunc()let x = myFunc(42) // -> Intlet y = myFunc("foo") // -> String
Note that this workaround doesn't apply to all situations, but it can be helpful in some.