由于有一些关于如何使用可选修饰符和@objc属性来定义可选需求协议的答案，我将给出一个如何使用协议扩展定义可选协议的示例。

下面的代码是Swift 3.*。

/// Protocol has empty default implementation of the following methods making them optional to implement:
/// `cancel()`
protocol Cancelable {

    /// default implementation is empty.
    func cancel()
}

extension Cancelable {

    func cancel() {}
}

class Plane: Cancelable {
  //Since cancel() have default implementation, that is optional to class Plane
}

let plane = Plane()
plane.cancel()
// Print out *United Airlines can't cancelable*

请注意，Objective-C代码不能调用协议扩展方法，更糟糕的是Swift团队不会修复它。https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-492

在Swift 2及以后的版本中，可以添加协议的默认实现。这为协议中的可选方法提供了一种新的方式。

protocol MyProtocol {
    func doSomethingNonOptionalMethod()
    func doSomethingOptionalMethod()
}

extension MyProtocol {
    func doSomethingOptionalMethod(){ 
        // leaving this empty 
    }
}

这不是一个创建可选协议方法的好方法，但是给了你在协议回调中使用struct的可能性。

我在这里写了一个小总结: https://www.avanderlee.com/swift-2-0/optional-protocol-methods/

由于有一些关于如何使用可选修饰符和@objc属性来定义可选需求协议的答案，我将给出一个如何使用协议扩展定义可选协议的示例。

下面的代码是Swift 3.*。

/// Protocol has empty default implementation of the following methods making them optional to implement:
/// `cancel()`
protocol Cancelable {

    /// default implementation is empty.
    func cancel()
}

extension Cancelable {

    func cancel() {}
}

class Plane: Cancelable {
  //Since cancel() have default implementation, that is optional to class Plane
}

let plane = Plane()
plane.cancel()
// Print out *United Airlines can't cancelable*

请注意，Objective-C代码不能调用协议扩展方法，更糟糕的是Swift团队不会修复它。https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-492

1. 使用默认实现(首选)。

protocol MyProtocol {
    func doSomething()
}

extension MyProtocol {
    func doSomething() {
        /* return a default value or just leave empty */
    }
}

struct MyStruct: MyProtocol {
    /* no compile error */
}

优势

不涉及Objective-C运行时(好吧，至少没有显式地)。这意味着你可以使结构，枚举和非nsobject类符合它。此外，这意味着您可以利用强大的泛型系统。 当遇到符合这种协议的类型时，您总是可以确保满足所有需求。它总是具体实现或默认实现。这就是“接口”或“契约”在其他语言中的表现。

缺点

For non-Void requirements, you need to have a reasonable default value, which is not always possible. However, when you encounter this problem, it means that either such requirement should really have no default implementation, or that your you made a mistake during API design. You can't distinguish between a default implementation and no implementation at all, at least without addressing that problem with special return values. Consider the following example: protocol SomeParserDelegate { func validate(value: Any) -> Bool } If you provide a default implementation which just returns true — it's fine at the first glance. Now, consider the following pseudo code: final class SomeParser { func parse(data: Data) -> [Any] { if /* delegate.validate(value:) is not implemented */ { /* parse very fast without validating */ } else { /* parse and validate every value */ } } } There's no way to implement such an optimization — you can't know if your delegate implements a method or not. Although there's a number of different ways to overcome this problem (using optional closures, different delegate objects for different operations to name a few), that example presents the problem clearly.

2. 使用@objc可选。

@objc protocol MyProtocol {
    @objc optional func doSomething()
}

class MyClass: NSObject, MyProtocol {
    /* no compile error */
}

优势

不需要缺省实现。你只需要声明一个可选方法或变量就可以了。

缺点

它要求所有符合要求的类型都与Objective-C兼容，从而严重限制了协议的功能。这意味着，只有继承自NSObject的类才能符合这样的协议。没有结构，没有枚举，没有关联类型。 必须始终通过可选调用或检查符合类型是否实现了可选方法来检查是否实现了可选方法。如果经常调用可选方法，这可能会引入大量样板文件。

一种选择是将它们存储为可选函数变量:

struct MyAwesomeStruct {
    var myWonderfulFunction : Optional<(Int) -> Int> = nil
}

let squareCalculator =
    MyAwesomeStruct(myWonderfulFunction: { input in return input * input })
let thisShouldBeFour = squareCalculator.myWonderfulFunction!(2)

您需要在每个方法之前添加可选关键字。 但是，请注意，要使其工作，您的协议必须用@objc属性标记。 这进一步表明该协议将适用于类，但不适用于结构。