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Create your two different models

Firstly, we need to define two different models (or two different types of data). Create a Models.swift file, where we'll store all of our models. Let's create Car model as our first model. The properties of each Car are color , year and brand.

// Models.swift

struct Car {
		var color: String
    var year: Int
    var brand: String
}

Next, we'll create our second model. It will be a Truck . The properties are color , year and status.

// Models.swift

struct Truck {
	var color: String
	var year: Int
	var status: String
}

Create the protocol

We need to create a protocol and make the Car and the Truck models conform to it. Inside of the protocol, we need to define the properties that Car and Truck have in common: color and year.

// Models.swift

protocol Transport {
    var color: String { get }
    var year: Int { get }
}

Use the protocol

Back to our models, we will need to make the Car and Truck conform to the Transport protocol.

// Models.swift

struct Car: Transport {
	[...]
}

struct Truck: Transport {
	[...]
}

Create your data

Create a Car instance and a Truck instance.

var car = Car(color: "red", year: 2000, brand: "Toyota")
var truck = Truck(color: "white", year: 2004, status: "used")

Create your function

You can now create a function or a View that will take a variable of Transport type, and you'll be able to pass either a Car data or a Truck data as an argument. In our case, we'll create a function that will return the transportation's color.

func returnTransportColor(transport: Transport) -> String {
    return transport.color
}

Call the function

Simply call the function. As a result, you'll get red for the car and white for the truck.

returnTransportColor(transport: car) // Output: "red"
returnTransportColor(transport: truck) // Output: "white"

Final code

The final code will look like this:

// Create the Car model
struct Car: Transport {
    var color: String
    var year: Int
    var brand: String
}

// Create the Truck model
struct Truck: Transport {
    var color: String
    var year: Int
    var status: String
}

// Create the protocol that Car and Truck will conform to
protocol Transport {
    var color: String { get }
    var year: Int { get }
}

// Create your variables
var car = Car(color: "red", year: 2000, brand: "Toyota")
var truck = Truck(color: "white", year: 2004, status: "used")

func returnTransportColor(transport: Transport) -> String {
    return transport.color
}

// Call your function
returnTransportColor(transport: car) // Output: "red"
returnTransportColor(transport: truck) // Output: "white"

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