ObjectFactory

Overview

This project is an example implementation of creating objects in Swift using a bridging header file. This project should be run from the command line.

#####Version

Version 1.0 - Design and Implementation of the ObjectFactory

Usage

The example shown below can be found in main.swift.

    let namespace = "ObjectFactory"

    typealias PersonFactory = ObjectFactory<Person>

    func createPersonWithClassName(
        className: String!,
        personName: String? = nil)
    {
        let qualifiedName = "\(namespace).\(className)"
        if personName != nil
        {
            if let person = PersonFactory.createInstance(
                className: qualifiedName,
                initializer: "initWithName",
                argument: personName!)
            {
                println("\(className) name = \(person.name)");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            if let person = PersonFactory.createInstance(className: qualifiedName)
            {
                println("Created a \(className)");
            }
        }
    }
    
    createPersonWithClassName("Stranger")
    createPersonWithClassName("Friend", personName: "Steve")

License

MIT License --> A short, permissive software license. Basically, you can do whatever you want as long as you include the original copyright and license notice in any copy of the software/source. There are many variations of this license in use.