Non-retaining array for delegates

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I found this bit of code awhile ago (can’t remember who to attribute it to).

It’s quite ingenius, using a Category to allow the creation of a mutable array that does no retain/release by backing it with a CFArray with proper callbacks.

@implementation NSMutableArray (WeakReferences)
    + (id)mutableArrayUsingWeakReferences {
    return [self mutableArrayUsingWeakReferencesWithCapacity:0];
    }

    + (id)mutableArrayUsingWeakReferencesWithCapacity:(NSUInteger)capacity {
    CFArrayCallBacks callbacks = {0, NULL, NULL, CFCopyDescription, CFEqual};
    // We create a weak reference array
    return (id)(CFArrayCreateMutable(0, capacity, &callbacks));
    }
@end

EDIT Found the original article: http://ofcodeandmen.poltras.com

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