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。

带有协议继承的纯Swift方法:

//Required methods
protocol MyProtocol {
    func foo()
}

//Optional methods
protocol MyExtendedProtocol: MyProtocol {
    func bar()
}

class MyClass {
    var delegate: MyProtocol
    func myMethod() {
        (delegate as? MyExtendedProtocol).bar()
    }
}

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!)
    }

 }

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。

如果你想在纯swift中做到这一点，最好的方法是提供一个默认实现，特别是如果你返回一个swift类型，例如struct与swift类型

例子:

struct magicDatas {
    var damagePoints : Int?
    var manaPoints : Int?
}

protocol magicCastDelegate {
    func castFire() -> magicDatas
    func castIce() -> magicDatas
}

extension magicCastDelegate {
    func castFire() -> magicDatas {
        return magicDatas()
    }

    func castIce() -> magicDatas {
        return magicDatas()
    }
}

然后你可以实现协议而不定义每个func