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Question

How can I avoid this warning in xcode. Here is the code snippet:

[player(AVPlayer object) addPeriodicTimeObserverForInterval:CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(0.1, 100)
queue:nil usingBlock:^(CMTime time) {
    current+=1;

    if(current==60)
    {
        min+=(current/60);
        current = 0;
    }

    [timerDisp(UILabel) setText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02d:%02d",min,current]];///warning occurs in this line
}];

Answer 1

Many times, this is not actually a retain cycle.

If you know that it's not, you need not bring fruitless weakSelves into the world.

Apple even forces these warnings upon us with the API to their UIPageViewController, which includes a set method (which triggers these warnings–as mentioned elsewhere–thinking you are setting a value to an ivar that is a block) and a completion handler block (in which you'll undoubtedly refer to yourself).

Here's some compiler directives to remove the warning from that one line of code:

#pragma GCC diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Warc-retain-cycles"
    [self.pageViewController setViewControllers:@[newViewController] direction:navigationDirection animated:YES completion:^(BOOL finished) {
        // this warning is caused because "setViewControllers" starts with "set…", it's not a problem
        [self doTheThingsIGottaDo:finished touchThePuppetHead:YES];
    }];
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop