SDWebImage 4.0 Migration Guide
SDWebImage 4.0 is the latest major release of SDWebImage, a top library for downloading and caching images. As a major release, following Semantic Versioning conventions, 4.0 introduces several API-breaking changes with its new architecture.
We've expanded the list of supported platforms and added to the existing iOS and tvOS, the long waited watchOS and Mac OS X.
Our support for animated images (especially GIFs) was not that great, so we decided to delegate this responsibility to FLAnimatedImage, a library created by Flipboard which has great results in working with animated images.
This guide is provided in order to ease the transition of existing applications using SDWebImage 3.X to the latest APIs, as well as explain the design and structure of new and changed functionality.
Requirements: iOS 7, Mac OS X 10.8, watchOS 2, tvOS 9, Xcode 7.3
SDWebImage 4.0 officially supports iOS 7 and later, Mac OS X 10.8 and later, watchOS 2 and later and tvOS 9 and later. It needs Xcode 7.3 or later to be able to build everything properly.
For targeting previous versions of the SDKs, check README - Backwards compatibility .
Migration
Swift
Because the 4.0 version included #1581 - Lightweight Generics and Nullability, the Swift interface for all users has changed.
For 3.x versions which did not have the Nullability specifiers, all params and vars where bridged as Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals.
With 4.0, the ones marked as nullable
will be regular optionals, as the nonnull
ones are non-optionals.
For details, read Nullability and Objective-C.
Simple case
SDWebImage 3.x
[imageView sd_setImageWithURL:url];
SDWebImage 4.x
[imageView sd_setImageWithURL:url];
Entities
Added
-
SDImageCacheConfig
class forSDImageCache
config (shouldDecompressImages
,shouldDisableiCloud
,shouldCacheImagesInMemory
,maxCacheAge
,maxCacheSize
) -
SDWebImageDownloadToken
class for the ability to cancel specific downloads (url
,downloadOperationCancelToken
) -
UIView (WebCache)
category because of DRY, with methodssd_imageURL
sd_internalSetImageWithURL:placeholderImage:options:operationKey:setImageBlock:progress:completed:
sd_cancelCurrentImageLoad
sd_showActivityIndicatorView
sd_addActivityIndicator
sd_removeActivityIndicator
-
SDWebImageDownloaderOperationInterface
protocol to describe the downloader operation behavior (in case one wants to customize) -
SDImageFormat
enum containing the formats supported by the library (jpeg, png, gif, tiff, webp) -
FLAnimatedImageView (WebCache)
category forFLAnimatedImageView
from FLAnimatedImage
UIImageView (WebCache)
- moved to
UIView (WebCache)
,UIImageView
objects still respond to those methods:sd_imageURL
sd_cancelCurrentImageLoad
-
setShowActivityIndicatorView:
renamed tosd_setShowActivityIndicatorView:
-
setIndicatorStyle:
renamed tosd_setIndicatorStyle:
- removed deprecated methods:
imageURL
setImageWithURL:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:options:
setImageWithURL:completed:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:completed:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:options:completed:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:options:progress:completed:
sd_setImageWithPreviousCachedImageWithURL:andPlaceholderImage:options:progress:completed:
setAnimationImagesWithURLs:
cancelCurrentArrayLoad
cancelCurrentImageLoad
UIButton (WebCache)
- removed deprecated methods:
currentImageURL
imageURLForState:
setImageWithURL:forState:
setImageWithURL:forState:placeholderImage:
setImageWithURL:forState:placeholderImage:options:
setImageWithURL:forState:completed:
setImageWithURL:forState:placeholderImage:completed:
setImageWithURL:forState:placeholderImage:options:completed:
setBackgroundImageWithURL:forState:
setBackgroundImageWithURL:forState:placeholderImage:
setBackgroundImageWithURL:forState:placeholderImage:options:
setBackgroundImageWithURL:forState:completed:
setBackgroundImageWithURL:forState:placeholderImage:completed:
setBackgroundImageWithURL:forState:placeholderImage:options:completed:
cancelCurrentImageLoad
cancelBackgroundImageLoadForState:
MKAnnotationView (WebCache)
- removed deprecated methods:
imageURL
setImageWithURL:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:options:
setImageWithURL:completed:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:completed:
setImageWithURL:placeholderImage:options:completed:
cancelCurrentImageLoad
UIImageView (HighlightedWebCache)
- removed methods:
sd_cancelCurrentHighlightedImageLoad
- removed deprecated methods:
setHighlightedImageWithURL:
setHighlightedImageWithURL:options:
setHighlightedImageWithURL:completed:
setHighlightedImageWithURL:options:completed:
setHighlightedImageWithURL:options:progress:completed:
cancelCurrentHighlightedImageLoad
SDWebImageManager
-
initWithCache:downloader:
is now the designated initializer - added
SDWebImageScaleDownLargeImages
option for scaling large images - renamed
downloadImageWithURL:options:progress:completed
toloadImageWithURL:options:progress:completed
just to make it clear what the method does - renamed
SDWebImageCompletionBlock
toSDExternalCompletionBlock
- renamed
SDWebImageCompletionWithFinishedBlock
toSDInternalCompletionBlock
and added extraNSData
param - removed synchronous methods:
cachedImageExistsForURL:
diskImageExistsForURL:
- removed deprecated methods:
downloadWithURL:options:progress:completed:
- removed deprecated types:
SDWebImageCompletedBlock
SDWebImageCompletedWithFinishedBlock
SDWebImagePrefetcher
-
initWithImageManager:
is now the designated initializer
SDWebImageDownloader
- added
initWithSessionConfiguration:
which is now the designated initializer - added
SDWebImageDownloaderScaleDownLargeImages
option for scaling large images - added a
NSURL
param toSDWebImageDownloaderProgressBlock
-
downloadImageWithURL:options:progress:completed:
now returns aSDWebImageDownloadToken
- added method
cancel:
which takes aSDWebImageDownloadToken
SDWebImageDownloaderOperation
-
initWithRequest:inSession:options:progress:completed:cancelled:
replaced by two methods:initWithRequest:inSession:options:
andaddHandlersForProgress:completed:
-
initWithRequest:inSession:options:
is now the designated initializer - added
cancel:
method - removed deprecated methods:
initWithRequest:options:progress:completed:cancelled:
SDImageCache
- moved the following properties to
SDImageCacheConfig
:shouldDecompressImages
shouldDisableiCloud
shouldCacheImagesInMemory
maxCacheAge
maxCacheSize
- added a
config
property (SDImageCacheConfig
) - renamed
SDWebImageQueryCompletedBlock
toSDCacheQueryCompletedBlock
and addedNSData
param -
initWithNamespace:diskCacheDirectory:
is now the designated initializer - the
storeImage:forKey:
,storeImage:forKey:toDisk:
,storeImage:recalculateFromImage:imageData:forKey:toDisk:
methods were async already, but declared as sync. Properly marked them as async + addedcompletion
param. Got rid of therecalculate
param. If theNSData
is provided, use it. Otherwise, recalculate it from theUIImage
-
storeImage:forKey:
->storeImage:forKey:completion:
-
storeImage:forKey:toDisk:
->storeImage:forKey:toDisk:completion:
-
storeImage:recalculateFromImage:imageData:forKey:toDisk:
->storeImage:imageData:forKey:toDisk:completion:
-
- removed the synchronous method
diskImageExistsWithKey:
- got rid of the confusion caused by having
cleanDisk
andclearDisk
. RenamedcleanDiskWithCompletion:
todeleteOldFilesWithCompletion:
. - removed the synchronous
clearDisk
anddeleteOldFiles
- renamed
queryDiskCacheForKey:done:
toqueryCacheOperationForKey:done:
- another clarification:
imageFromDiskCacheForKey:
used to also check the memory cache which I think is misleading. NowimageFromDiskCacheForKey:
only checks the disk cache and the new methodimageFromCacheForKey:
checks both caches - removed
removeImageForKey:
andremoveImageForKey:fromDisk:
because they caused confusion (were calling the async ones withnil
ascompletion
)
NSData (ImageContentType)
- renamed
sd_contentTypeForImageData:
tosd_imageFormatForImageData:
and returnsSDImageFormat
- removed the deprecated method
contentTypeForImageData:
SDWebImageCompat
- removed
dispatch_main_sync_safe
as it could be mistakenly used - updated
dispatch_main_async_safe
so it checks for the main queue instead of the main thread
SDWebImageDecoder
- added
decodedAndScaledDownImageWithImage:
that decodes the image and scales it down if it's too big (over 60MB in memory)
UIImage
- removed
sd_animatedGIFNamed:
orsd_animatedImageByScalingAndCroppingToSize:
- added
isGIF
- added
sd_imageData
andsd_imageDataAsFormat:
. Those methods transform aUIImage
to theNSData
representation