Best Technique for Replacing Delegate Methods with Blocks

Question

I\'m looking to create a category to replace delegate methods with callbacks blocks for a lot of the simple iOS APIs. Similar to the sendAsyc block on NSURLConnection. There are

Answer 1

Here's what I did:

typedef void(^EmptyBlockType)();

@interface YUYesNoListener : NSObject <UIAlertViewDelegate>

@property (nonatomic, retain) EmptyBlockType yesBlock;
@property (nonatomic, retain) EmptyBlockType noBlock;

+ (void) yesNoWithTitle:(NSString*)title message:(NSString*)message yesBlock:(EmptyBlockType)yesBlock noBlock:(EmptyBlockType)noBlock;

@end

@implementation YUYesNoListener

@synthesize yesBlock = _yesBlock;
@synthesize noBlock = _noBlock;

- (id) initWithYesBlock:(EmptyBlockType)yesBlock noBlock:(EmptyBlockType)noBlock
{
    self = [super init];
    if (self)
    {
        self.yesBlock = [[yesBlock copy] autorelease];
        self.noBlock = [[noBlock copy] autorelease];
    }
    return self;
}

- (void) alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
    if (buttonIndex == 0 && self.noBlock)
        self.noBlock();
    else if (buttonIndex == 1 && self.yesBlock)
        self.yesBlock();

    [_yesBlock release];
    [_noBlock release];
    [alertView release];
    [self release];
}

- (void) alertViewCancel:(UIAlertView *)alertView
{
    if (self.noBlock)
        self.noBlock();
    [_yesBlock release];
    [_noBlock release];
    [alertView release];
    [self release];
}

+ (void) yesNoWithTitle:(NSString*)title message:(NSString*)message yesBlock:(EmptyBlockType)yesBlock noBlock:(EmptyBlockType)noBlock
{
    YUYesNoListener* yesNoListener = [[YUYesNoListener alloc] initWithYesBlock:yesBlock noBlock:noBlock];
    [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:title message:message delegate:yesNoListener cancelButtonTitle:@"No" otherButtonTitles:@"Yes", nil] show];
}

@end

Answer 2

I had a similar problem and chose your option 2, but with the 2 small additions:

1. Explicitly marking the delegate it implements like this:

   @interface __DelegateBlock:NSObject <BlocksDelegate>
   

2. Check to ensure the callback is not nil before calling:

   if (callbackBlock != nil) {
       callbackBlock(buttonIndex);
   }