Question

I have a NSObject which is a singleton. Is there any issue of having a delegate for this singleton class? I am worried that it would fail for a singleton type.

Here’s my scenario. I have a function (inside this singleton class) that does a async request to pull out a NSDictionary from an API. Basically when this request is done I want to notify a class that the request has finished.

Answer 1

No, a delegate wouldn’t fail, but consider using NSNotificationCenter instead:

static NSString *const kMyClassNotificationName = @"myClassNotificationName";

// where you would call a delegate method (e.g. [self.delegate doSomething])
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:kMyClassNotificationName object:self userInfo: /* dictionary containing variables to pass to the delegate */];

// where you would set up a delegate (e.g. [Singleton instance].delegate = self)
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(doSomething) name:kMyClassNotificationName object:[Singleton instance]];