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How to implement block property of Objective C category

Given:

@interface NSArray (Sample)

@property (nonnull, nonatomic, readonly) NSArray *_Nonnull (^mapped)(id __nullable (^block)(id __nonnull));

@end


How can one implement this category? I'm confused by this block property syntax.
This explains the type annotations: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=25

This is what I started for implementation:

@implementation NSArray (Sample)

typedef id __nullable (^block)(id __nonnull);

...
@end


later tried this:

@implementation NSArray (Sample)

typedef NSArray *_Nonnull (^mapped)( id __nullable (^block)(id __nonnull) );

-(mapped)mapped
return ^( id __nullable (^block)(id __nonnull) )
return @[@"what", @"the", @"heck"];
;

@end


Later still:

Technically I think the above would fulfill the extension's contract, but per the comments with bbum I have tried to ascertain what the intent might likely be to create this kind of extension. Picked apart:

Normally we would inject/set the block with the setter however to fulfill the contract we could just construct it as an instance variable "someMapped" as follows.

@implementation NSArray (Sample)

typedef NSArray *_Nonnull (^mapped)( id __nullable (^block)(id __nonnull) );

-(mapped)mapped {

//Normally someMapped block definition would be injected/set by the setter -(void) setMapped:(mapped) aMapped
mapped someMapped = ^(id __nonnull someId)
NSMutableArray * new = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for( NSMutableDictionary* dict in self)
NSMutableString * str = [dict objectForKey:someId];
[str stringByAppendingString:@".png"];
[new addObject:str];

return [new copy];
;

return someMapped;


@end


1 Answer
1

It isn't clear what you are trying to do. Are you trying to implement a map type function on NSArray? If so, then there is no need for an @property, which would imply that you are storing something associated with they instance. You probably just want a method:

map

NSArray

@property

typedef id __nullable (^bt_MapBlockT)(id __nonnull);
- (NSArray *)bt_map:(bt_MapBlockT) block;
// written in browser... probably hosed the syntax slightly.


There are a slew of examples floating about that implement map-reduce-filter-whatever on NSArray, btw.

@property

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