NSGenericException', reason: 'Unable to install constraint on view

Question

Terminating app due to uncaught exception \'NSGenericException\'

Terminating app due to uncaught exception \'NSGenericException\', reason: \'Unable to

Answer 1

Similar to neoneye I was getting this due to removing subviews with constraints. However I had a constraint that was positioning the parent view, and this was being removed if I called [self.view removeConstraints:self.view.constraints]; Instead I made this change,

Original Code:

for (UIView *subview in [view subviews]) {
    [subview removeFromSuperview];
}

Fixed to remove constraints on subviews:

NSMutableArray * constraints_to_remove = [ @[] mutableCopy] ;
for( NSLayoutConstraint * constraint in view.constraints) {
    if( [view.subviews containsObject:constraint.firstItem] ||
       [view.subviews containsObject:constraint.secondItem] ) {
        [constraints_to_remove addObject:constraint];
    }
}
[view removeConstraints:constraints_to_remove];

for (UIView *subview in [view subviews]) {
    [subview removeFromSuperview];
}

UPDATE: So I hit this error again - and it was due to removing a single view this time. Added a function to remove the view cleanly:

void cleanRemoveFromSuperview( UIView * view ) {
  if(!view || !view.superview) return;

  //First remove any constraints on the superview
  NSMutableArray * constraints_to_remove = [NSMutableArray new];
  UIView * superview = view.superview;

  for( NSLayoutConstraint * constraint in superview.constraints) {
    if( constraint.firstItem == view ||constraint.secondItem == view ) {
      [constraints_to_remove addObject:constraint];
    }
  }
  [superview removeConstraints:constraints_to_remove];

  //Then remove the view itself.
  [view removeFromSuperview];
}