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Misha
Misha

Reputation: 5380

New method in subclassed class shows warning in Objective-c

I subclassed NSDate class and added my method 'myDate' under 

@interface NSDate (NSDateAdditions) section.

When i want to use this method, I import "NSDateAdditions.h" and use it. The problem is that i always get warning "'NSDate' may not respond to 'myDate'"

Is there a way to get rid of this warning?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 112

Answers (2)

user557219
user557219

Reputation:

When you write:

@interface NSDate (NSDateAdditions)

you’re not subclassing NSDate. Instead, you’re adding a category named NSDateAdditions to the NSDate class. By doing so, the class is still called NSDate and the methods declared in the category are added to NSDate.

You can declare class and/or instance methods in a category. For example:

// NSDate+NSDateAdditions.h

@interface NSDate (NSDateAdditions)
- (id)anInstanceMethod;
+ (id)aClassMethod;
@end

and:

// SomeImplementationFile.m

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "NSDate+NSDateAdditions.h"

// in some method…
{
    NSDate *someDate = [NSDate aClassMethod];

    NSDate *anotherDate = [NSDate date];
    id someResult = [anotherDate anInstanceMethod];
}

Without seeing your category declaration (and how you’re using it), it’s hard to tell what’s wrong with your code. One thing to check is whether you’ve declared a class or instance method — class methods are declared with + whilst instance methods are declared with -. When using a class method, you send a message to the class, namely NSDate:

    // Send a message to the class
    NSDate *someDate = [NSDate aClassMethod];

When using an instance method, you send a message to a previously created instance:

    // Create an instance
    NSDate *anotherDate = [NSDate date];

    // Send a message to the instance
    id someResult = [anotherDate anInstanceMethod];

Upvotes: 2

Mikayil Abdullayev
Mikayil Abdullayev

Reputation: 12376

I'm sorry according to what you've written you have not subclassed NSDate. What you are doing is you're adding NSDateAdditions category. Even that way does not seem to be quite right as I don't understand "section" part there. The compiler should complain. You should do it this way instead:

@interface NSDateAdditions:NSDate
//declare your method here.
@end;

Upvotes: -1

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