Casting a CFDictionaryRef to NSDictionary?

Question

I have the code (stripped down):

CFDictionaryRef *currentListingRef;
//declare currentListingRef here
NSDictionary *currentListing;
currentListing = (NSDicti         


        

Answer 1

ARC changed the way bridging works.

NSDictionary *original = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@"World" forKey:@"Hello"];
CFDictionaryRef dict = (__bridge CFDictionaryRef)original;
NSDictionary *andBack = (__bridge NSDictionary*)dict;
NSLog(@"%@", andBack);