Ward

ward is a Swift micro-framework to help with cleaning up ugly memory management syntax.

Before

func useAClosureBasedAPI(block: @escaping (Something) -> Void) { ... }

useAClosureBasedAPI(block: { [weak self] something in
    guard let strongSelf = self else {
        return
    }

    strongSelf.handle(something)
})

After

useAClosureBasedAPI(block: ward(self) { strongSelf, something in
    strongSelf.handle(something)
})

Under the hood

public func ward<Object: AnyObject>(_ object: Object, f: @escaping (Object) -> Void) -> () -> Void {
    return { [weak object] in
        guard let object = object else { return }
        f(object)
    }
}

Other use cases

Supports Swift’s unapplied method references

Use the curried function API to call Swift’s automatically synthesized static accessors for instance methods:

class MyViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        useAClosureBasedAPI(block: ward(self, MyViewController.handleSomething))
        // MyViewController.handleSomething is of type (MyViewController) -> (Something) -> Void
    }

    func handleSomething(_ something: Something) {
        ...
    }
}

Supports non-Void returning closures

/// Returns half of `count` while `self` is alive. If `self` has deallocated, returns the provided default value (nil).
let halfOfCountIfSelfAlive: (_ count: Int) -> Int? = ward(self, else: nil) { _, count in
    return count / 2
}

Supports ward for multiple objects

let anObject = MyClass()
ward(self, anObject) { strongSelf, theObject in
   ...
}

Try it out!

Carthage

github 'OneAfternoon/Ward' ~> 1.0

CocoaPods

pod 'Ward', '~> 1.0'

Swift Package Manager

.package(url: "https://github.com/OneAfternoon/Ward.git", from: "1.0.0")

Authors

• Mack Hasz (@lazyvar)
• Swain Molster (@smolster)