这里的其他答案涉及将协议标记为“@objc”，在使用swift特定类型时不起作用。

struct Info {
    var height: Int
    var weight: Int
} 

@objc protocol Health {
    func isInfoHealthy(info: Info) -> Bool
} 
//Error "Method cannot be marked @objc because the type of the parameter cannot be represented in Objective-C"

为了声明能在swift中很好地工作的可选协议，将函数声明为变量而不是func。

protocol Health {
    var isInfoHealthy: (Info) -> (Bool)? { get set }
}

然后实现如下协议

class Human: Health {
    var isInfoHealthy: (Info) -> (Bool)? = { info in
        if info.weight < 200 && info.height > 72 {
            return true
        }
        return false
    }
    //Or leave out the implementation and declare it as:  
    //var isInfoHealthy: (Info) -> (Bool)?
}

然后可以使用“?”来检查函数是否已经实现

func returnEntity() -> Health {
    return Human()
}

var anEntity: Health = returnEntity()

var isHealthy = anEntity.isInfoHealthy(Info(height: 75, weight: 150))? 
//"isHealthy" is true

为了说明安托万回答的机制:

protocol SomeProtocol {
    func aMethod()
}

extension SomeProtocol {
    func aMethod() {
        print("extensionImplementation")
    }
}

class protocolImplementingObject: SomeProtocol {

}

class protocolImplementingMethodOverridingObject: SomeProtocol {
    func aMethod() {
        print("classImplementation")
    }
}

let noOverride = protocolImplementingObject()
let override = protocolImplementingMethodOverridingObject()

noOverride.aMethod() //prints "extensionImplementation"
override.aMethod() //prints "classImplementation"

这里有一个非常简单的例子，只适用于swift类，而不适用于结构或枚举。 注意，协议方法是可选的，有两个级别的可选链接。 同样，采用协议的类在声明中需要@objc属性。

@objc protocol CollectionOfDataDelegate{
   optional func indexDidChange(index: Int)
}


@objc class RootView: CollectionOfDataDelegate{

    var data = CollectionOfData()

   init(){
      data.delegate = self
      data.indexIsNow()
   }

  func indexDidChange(index: Int) {
      println("The index is currently: \(index)")
  }

}

class CollectionOfData{
    var index : Int?
    weak var delegate : CollectionOfDataDelegate?

   func indexIsNow(){
      index = 23
      delegate?.indexDidChange?(index!)
    }

 }

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

如何创建可选和必需的委托方法。

@objc protocol InterViewDelegate:class {

    @objc optional func optfunc()  //    This is optional
    func requiredfunc()//     This is required 

}

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)