Discussion

You can retrieve this original object by invoking the resolveWeakReference on the returned object.

This method is useful when you want to add this object to a collection, but don’t want to create a strong reference to it within the collection, or in any other situation where you want to assign this object to a strong reference, but need to avoid a potential retain cycle.

This implementation creates and returns an NSValue, with this object set as its nonretainedObjectValue.

Discussion

This implementation simply invokes the description method. Subclasses with more substantial content can override to provide much more information.