Go Language Interface

Go language provides another data type that is the interface, which together with the definition of all the methods have in common, and any other type implements these methods is to implement this interface.

Examples

/* 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*/
}

Examples

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 example above, we define an interface Phone, the interface which has a method call (). Then we define a variable in the main function type Phone inside, and to whom were assigned to NokiaPhone and IPhone. Then call call () method, the output results are as follows:

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