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In ARC enabled code, how to fix a warning about a potential retain cycle, when using a block-based API?

The warning:
Capturing 'request' strongly in this block is likely to lead to a retain cycle

produced by this snippet of code:

ASIHTTPRequest *request = [[ASIHTTPRequest alloc] initWithURL:...

[request setCompletionBlock:^{
    NSDictionary *jsonDictionary = [[CJSONDeserializer deserializer] deserialize:request.rawResponseData error:nil];
    // ...
    }];

Warning is linked to the use of the object request inside the block.

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Replying to myself:

My understanding of the documentation says that using keyword block and setting the variable to nil after using it inside the block should be ok, but it still shows the warning.

__block ASIHTTPRequest *request = [[ASIHTTPRequest alloc] initWithURL:...

[request setCompletionBlock:^{
    NSDictionary *jsonDictionary = [[CJSONDeserializer deserializer] deserialize:request.responseData error:nil];
    request = nil;
// ....

    }];

Update: got it to work with the keyword '_weak' instead of '_block', and using a temporary variable:

ASIHTTPRequest *_request = [[ASIHTTPRequest alloc] initWithURL:...
__weak ASIHTTPRequest *request = _request;

[request setCompletionBlock:^{
    NSDictionary *jsonDictionary = [[CJSONDeserializer deserializer] deserialize:request.responseData error:nil];
    // ...
    }];

If you want to also target iOS 4, use __unsafe_unretained instead of __weak. Same behavior, but the pointer stays dangling instead of being automatically set to nil when the object is destroyed.


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