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Basic

Use Nulllable or Nonnull annotation which also helps interop with Swift.

- (nullable AAPLListItem *)itemWithName:(nonnull NSString *)name;
- (NSInteger)indexOfItem:(nonnull AAPLListItem *)item;

To ease adoption of the new annotations, you can mark certain regions of your Objective-C header files as audited for nullability with NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN and NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END. Within these regions, any simple pointer type will be assumed to be nonnull. This collapses our earlier example down into something much simpler.

NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
@interface AAPLList : NSObject <NSCoding, NSCopying>
// ...
- (nullable AAPLListItem *)itemWithName:(NSString *)name;
- (NSInteger)indexOfItem:(AAPLListItem *)item;

@property (copy, nullable) NSString *name;
@property (copy, readonly) NSArray<AAPLListItem *> *allItems;
// ...
@end
NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END

For Apple guidelines, please refer Nullability and Objective-C

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