Question

After updating to xcode 4.6 and ios6.1, I get this new error “‘objectType’ used as the name of the previous parameter rather than as part of the selector“. I get this multiple times. Any ideas?

PS: The method that it get displayed is a custom one for reverse geocoding.

-(void) getAddress: (NSString *) objectType: (CLLocationCoordinate2D) objectCoordinate

Answer 1

It says that objectType is the name of the NSString object in your method and not part of the method name and it should not be used as objectType: (CLLocationCoordinate2D) objectCoordinate which normally denotes a part of method name.

Ideally you should change,

-(void) getAddress: (NSString *) objectType: (CLLocationCoordinate2D) objectCoordinate

to a more readable,

-(void) getAddress:(NSString *)objectType coordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D) objectCoordinate;

The above error can also be fixed by putting a space between objectType and next param in method definition(For eg:- -(void)getAddress:(NSString *)objectType : (CLLocationCoordinate2D)objectCoordinate). Note the space after objectType.

Update:

To answer the question in comments you can use the below line to suppress these warnings:

#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wmissing-selector-name"

Add this in your pch file. I am not sure if this will work for your case where it comes from library but you can try it out. Check this clang-trunk for more details.