Go language interface

The Go language provides another data type, the interface, which defines all common methods together. Any other type that implements these methods will implement this interface.

Example

/* 定义接口 */
type interface_name interface {
   method_name1 [return_type]
   method_name2 [return_type]
   method_name3 [return_type]
   ...
   method_namen [return_type]
}

/* 定义结构体 */
type struct_name struct {
   /* variables */
}

/* 实现接口方法 */
func (struct_name_variable struct_name) method_name1() [return_type] {
   /* 方法实现 */
}
...
func (struct_name_variable struct_name) method_namen() [return_type] {
   /* 方法实现*/
}

Example

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

type Phone interface {
    call()
}

type NokiaPhone struct {
}

func (nokiaPhone NokiaPhone) call() {
    fmt.Println("I am Nokia, I can call you!")
}

type IPhone struct {
}

func (iPhone IPhone) call() {
    fmt.Println("I am iPhone, I can call you!")
}

func main() {
    var phone Phone

    phone = new(NokiaPhone)
    phone.call()

    phone = new(IPhone)
    phone.call()

}

In the above example, we defined an interface Phone, which has a method call(). Then we defined a Phone type variable in the main function and assigned it to NokiaPhone and IPhone respectively. Then call the call() method, and the output result is as follows:

I am Nokia, I can call you!
I am iPhone, I can call you!