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This is a useful collection of links. One point of note, Facebook's solution doesn't rely on swizzling. Much like THObserversAndBinders, KVOController ties observation to the controller scope.

We use a shared controller instance, that acts as a receptionist for all KVO notifications, as well as a weak reference to the observer, in order to safely allow observer removal on dealloc.

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Ah, thanks for correcting me. I didn't have time to go through it yet.

https://github.com/facebook/KVOController#usage

By controller does the readme refer to the KVOController instance? I assume this is a property on the class that uses it, and once the class gets dealloced, its observer also get dealloced? FBKVOController

Hmm... I think this is a much better idea! Much cleaner than what I current got going, but then again we don't offer the same api. Thanks for correcting me!

Correct. Add a strong reference from observer to KVOController instance via a property or instance variable and you've achieved un-observation on observer dealloc :)

This usage pattern is quite common. We'll look into calling this out more explicitly in the readme. Thanks for the feedback!

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