when to use respondsToSelector in objective-c

Question

- (void)someMethod
{
    if ( [delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(operationShouldProceed)] )
    {
        if ( [delegate operationShouldProceed] )
        {
             


        

Answer 1

Old question, but I have learned to be very cautios with using stuff like addTarget:@selector(fu:) because the method name is not checked nor included in refactoring by XCODE. This has caused me quite some trouble already. So now I made it a habbit to always embed stuff like addTarget or addObserver in a respondsToSelector-Check like so:

if([self respondsToSelector:@selector(buttonClicked:)]){
    [self.button addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonClicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
}else{
    DebugLog(@"Warning - a class or delegate did not respond to selector in class %@", self);
} 

I know its not super elegant, but i'd rather add some boilerplate code than have an unexpected crash of my apps in the App Store.