Protocols

The following protocols are available globally.

  • A type serving as a witness to another type’s conformance to Equatable.

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    Declaration

    Swift

    public protocol EquatableWitness<Element>
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  • Classes whose initializers actually create derived classes

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    Declaration

    Swift

    public protocol FactoryInitializable : Sendable
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  • A type serving as a witness to another type’s conformance to Hashable.

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    Declaration

    Swift

    public protocol HashableWitness<Element> : EquatableWitness
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  • An object that flattens values into—or reconstitutes values from—a serialized Encoding, maintaining state across the (de)serialization of individual parts.

    Note

    this protocol matches Foundation’s XXXEncoder/XXXDecoder types, which—confusingly—do not themselves conform to the Encoder/Decoder protocols.
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    Declaration

    Swift

    public protocol StatefulCoder
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  • An object that flattens values into a serialized Encoding, maintaining state across the serialization of individual parts.

    Note

    this protocol matches Foundation’s XXXEncoder types, which—confusingly—do not themselves conform to the Encoder protocol.
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    Declaration

    Swift

    public protocol StatefulEncoder : StatefulCoder
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  • An object that reconstitutes values from a serialized Encoding, maintaining state across the deserialization of individual parts.

    Note

    this protocol matches Foundation’s XXXEncoder types, which—confusingly—do not themselves conform to the Encoder protocol.
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    Declaration

    Swift

    public protocol StatefulDecoder : StatefulCoder
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