Retain Cycle Issue in iOS #2462

Bug Report

The bridge.viewController is not getting released since this plugin hold the strong Reference to the ViewController
on load(), which is leading to retain cycle in iOS .

https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-plugins/blob/7.x/screen-orientation/ios/Sources/ScreenOrientationPlugin/ScreenOrientationPlugin.swift

Inside this class :

https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-plugins/blob/7.x/screen-orientation/ios/Sources/ScreenOrientationPlugin/ScreenOrientation.swift

Please change view controller to weak :

private weak var capViewController: CAPBridgeViewController?

Plugin(s)

Plugin : screen-orientation

https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-plugins/blob/main/screen-orientation/ios/Sources/ScreenOrientationPlugin/ScreenOrientation.swift

Platform(s)

iOS

Expected Behavior

It should be able to access the bridge.viewController as long as it stays in memory

Or

Please provide option or method to close ViewController safely without memory leaks .

Additional :

Same issue is observed with capacitor-barcode-scanner in load() , it passes viewController reference to OSBarcodeLib which strongly holds the viewController

https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-barcode-scanner/blob/main/plugin/ios/Sources/CapacitorBarcodeScannerPlugin/CapacitorBarcodeScannerPlugin.swift