UIButton block equivalent to addTarget:action:forControlEvents: method?

I just implemented this. It work's like a charm!

And it wasn't even hard.

typedef void (^ActionBlock)();

@interface UIBlockButton : UIButton {
    ActionBlock _actionBlock;
}

-(void) handleControlEvent:(UIControlEvents)event
                 withBlock:(ActionBlock) action;
@end

@implementation UIBlockButton

-(void) handleControlEvent:(UIControlEvents)event
                 withBlock:(ActionBlock) action
{
    _actionBlock = action;
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(callActionBlock:) forControlEvents:event];
}

-(void) callActionBlock:(id)sender{
    _actionBlock();
}
@end

There is a library of blocks additions to the common Foundation/UI classes: BlocksKit. Here is the documentation.

It does not subclass UIButton, but adds UIControl category:

[button addEventHandler:^(id sender) {
    //do something
} forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

There is also blocks/functional additions to collections (map, filter, etc), views-related stuff and more.

NOTE: it does not play well with Swift.

Here's a working category implementation. In it's current form, this should only be used in DEBUG. I use this category in conjunction with a function (included below) to test various bits of code when user interaction and timing are important. Again this is only for development/debug purposes and shouldn't be considered for production, hence the #ifdef DEBUG ;)

#ifdef DEBUG

#import <objc/runtime.h>

static char UIButtonBlockKey;

@interface UIButton (UIBlockButton)

- (void)handleControlEvent:(UIControlEvents)event withBlock:(ActionBlock)block;
- (void)callActionBlock:(id)sender;

@end


@implementation UIButton (UIBlockButton)

- (void)handleControlEvent:(UIControlEvents)event withBlock:(ActionBlock)block {
    objc_setAssociatedObject(self, &UIButtonBlockKey, block, OBJC_ASSOCIATION_COPY_NONATOMIC);
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(callActionBlock:) forControlEvents:event];
}


- (void)callActionBlock:(id)sender {
    ActionBlock block = (ActionBlock)objc_getAssociatedObject(self, &UIButtonBlockKey);
    if (block) {
        block();
    }
}

@end


void DSAddGlobalButton(NSString *title, ActionBlock block) {
    UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
    [button setTitle:title forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [button handleControlEvent:UIControlEventTouchUpInside withBlock:block];
    [button sizeToFit];
    [button setFrame:(CGRect){{100.0f, 100.0f}, [button frame].size}];

    UIView *firstView = [[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow] subviews] objectAtIndex:0];
    [firstView addSubview:button];
}


#endif