iOS clear layer of UIView

Question

I drew a few lines in the layer property of my UIView. But is there a method to clean up all the lines I drew?

I want to clear everything that is drawn on layer of my view.

I draw a line with the following code:

- (void)drawLine :(UIView *)drawInView :(CGPoint)startPosition :(CGPoint)endPosition
{
    //draw the line
    linePath = CGPathCreateMutable();
    lineShape = [CAShapeLayer layer];

    lineShape.lineWidth = 1.0f;
    lineShape.lineCap = kCALineCapRound;;
    lineShape.strokeColor = [[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor];

    CGPathMoveToPoint(linePath, NULL, startPosition.x, startPosition.y);
    CGPathAddLineToPoint(linePath, NULL, endPosition.x, endPosition.y);

    lineShape.path = linePath;
    CGPathRelease(linePath);
    [drawInView.layer addSublayer:lineShape];
}

I found some code to remove all the sublayers I drew.

-(void)clearGraph :(UIView *)viewToClear
{
    for (CALayer *layer in viewToClear.layer.sublayers) {
        [layer removeFromSuperlayer];
    }
}

But this will give an Exception:

2013-08-28 21:10:18.877 ServerInfo[12861:3f03] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSGenericException', reason: '*** Collection <CALayerArray: 0x1f86b3b0> was mutated while being enumerated.'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x336ef3e7 0x3b3ea963 0x336eeec1 0x13f7d 0x158bb 0x340082fb 0x336c4857 0x336c4503 0x336c3177 0x3363623d 0x336360c9 0x33f5a5c3 0x33ffdc45 0x15843 0x34007231 0x3b8370e1 0x3b836fa8)
libc++abi.dylib: terminate called throwing an exception
(lldb) 

I call my drawline method inside a NSTread. (doParsing method to be specific).

NSThread *myThread =[[NSThread alloc]initWithTarget:self selector:@selector(callTimer) object:nil];
    [myThread start];

- (void)callTimer
{
    NSRunLoop* runLoop = [NSRunLoop currentRunLoop];
    [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1 target:self selector:@selector(doParsing) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
    [runLoop run];
}

Answer 1

A much simpler way to remove all the sublayers of a UIView is to set its sublayers property to nil

viewToClear.layer.sublayers = nil;