Welcome to OGeek Q&A Community for programmer and developer-Open, Learning and Share
Welcome To Ask or Share your Answers For Others

Categories

0 votes
1.4k views
in Technique[技术] by (71.8m points)

ios - explanation for deinit not called

I have a view contoller (for log in) that defines deinit method to remove observers. When user taps on Register button, the controller calls performSegueWithIdentifier to load registration view controller. I defined deinit method to remove all observers. However, that method is not being called. I read it somewhere that it is because the viewcontroller is not being destroyed and the pointer to it is hold somewhere. Could anyone explain the reason behind this?

Thanks

EDIT : Although I agree that the link provided in the comment section holds the same question, there is no answer or clear answer to that. The highest upvoted reply suggested to define something inside deinit instead of leaving it blank. That does not answer the explination I'm looking for. For that reason, I'm keeping this question until somebody can point out my understanding is incorrect.And also, I do think that Matt explains it succinctly and clearly.

See Question&Answers more detail:os

与恶龙缠斗过久,自身亦成为恶龙;凝视深渊过久,深渊将回以凝视…
Welcome To Ask or Share your Answers For Others

1 Reply

0 votes
by (71.8m points)

The usual reason for failure to trigger deinit when expected is that you have a retain cycle that prevents your view controller from going out of existence.

(Sometimes the reason is that your expectation that the view controller would be destroyed under the circumstances is incorrect. But assuming it is correct, a retain cycle is the reason.)

You mentioned removing all observers. What kind of observers? If we're talking about NSNotification, that is often how you get a retain cycle. The notification center retains the observer until you unregister it. You thus cannot get deinit until after the observer has been removed. Therefore, you cannot remove the observer in deinit.


与恶龙缠斗过久,自身亦成为恶龙;凝视深渊过久,深渊将回以凝视…
OGeek|极客中国-欢迎来到极客的世界,一个免费开放的程序员编程交流平台!开放,进步,分享!让技术改变生活,让极客改变未来! Welcome to OGeek Q&A Community for programmer and developer-Open, Learning and Share
Click Here to Ask a Question

...