> On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Alejandro Martinez via swift-users > <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I found myself writting some method that parsed an API response and > wanted to use Decodable to map the response into a struct declared > elsewhere. > My idea was that each api response handler file (I use completely > different APIs that map into the same model) could add it's own > fileprivate conformance to decodable into the model struct so each api > response handler would use a different decoding function. But I found > the compiler telling me that is not possible. > > I can easily change my design, is not an issue but I'm super curious. > Why fileprivate extensions can't add protocol conformance? Is there a > technical reason behind? or a conscience design?
Extensions that add a protocol conformance are not allowed to have an access modifier applied because the conformance is currently required to have the same visibility as the protocol itself. > > Thanks! > > > -- > Alejandro Martinez > http://alejandromp.com > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
