Automatically created NSManagedObject subclasses don't use ARC

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My project is ARC enabled (the build settings have Objective-C Reference Counting set to YES). There are no file exceptions to this, it is enabled project wide. (Latest stable version of Xcode).

When I create an NSManagedObject subclass via File > New for a Core Data entity, the generated header uses the following in its property declarations:

@property (nonatomic, retain)

But 'retain' is not ARC!! Is this a bug, or is there something I'm missing or not understanding? There are no build warnings - if this is a bug though, how can I remedy it?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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retain is a synonym for strong. So it is perfectly valid to use retain or strong in this case.

For more detail check out this question.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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answered Jun 16 '12 at 04:21

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '12 at 04:21

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retain is a valid property declaration in ARC: See the clang documentation on it

answered Jun 16 '12 at 04:21

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Automatically created NSManagedObject subclasses don't use ARC

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