Elegant way to pass empty closures in Swift

Question

In Swift, I often have to pass a noop closure to a method just to comply with the method's expected parameters (arity). In the good old days of Obj C, one could pass nil for a noop callback and be done with it. Is there a quicker more elegant way to do that in Swift without passing an empty block like below?

UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (UIAlertAction) -> Void in }) // do nothing in callback

Complete example:

import UIKit  class UIAlertControllerFactory {     class func ok(title: String, message: String) -> UIAlertController {         var alertController = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message, preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)         var okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (UIAlertAction) -> Void in         })         alertController.addAction(okAction)         return alertController     } } 

Answer 1

The general way, if you can't pass nil:

var okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default,     handler:{ _ in }) 

You can also pass nil in this case, because (as of iOS 9.0) the handler is an Optional:

var okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default,     handler:nil)