Components Can't Be Delegates Directly

TL;DR: You can use CKComponentDelegateAttribute to configure a delegate for a view to proxy delegate methods back to your component.

Components are short-lived, and their lifecycle is not under your control. Thus they should not be delegates or NSNotification observers.

An example: imagine you're showing a UIAlertView. You might be tempted to make the component the delegate:

@implementation AlertDisplayComponent <UIAlertViewDelegate>
{
  UIAlertView *_alertView;
}
- (void)didTapDisplayAlert
{
  _alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Are you sure?"
                                          message:nil
                                         delegate:self ...];
  [_alertView show];
}
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alert didDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
  [self updateState:...];
}
@end

But if the component hierarchy is regenerated for any reason, the original component will be deallocated and the alert view will be left with no delegate.

Instead, use CKComponentController. Component controllers are long-lived; they persist and keep track of each updated version of your component. You can learn more about component controllers; here's an example of their use:

@interface AlertDisplayComponentController : CKComponentController <UIAlertViewDelegate>
@end
@implementation AlertDisplayComponentController
{
  UIAlertView *_alertView;
}
- (void)didTapDisplayAlert
{
  _alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Are you sure?"
                                          message:nil
                                         delegate:self ...];
  [_alertView show];
}
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alert didDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
  [self.component updateState:...];
}
@end

Another option is to use CKComponentDelegateAttribute, which will proxy delegate callbacks into the component responder chain.

[CKComponent
 newWithView:{[UIScrollView class], {
   CKComponentDelegateAttribute(@selector(setDelegate:), {
   @selector(scrollViewDidScroll:),
   @selector(scrollViewDidZoom:),
   })
 }}
 size:{}] ...

Then in your component, you can implement the delegate methods -scrollViewDidScroll: and -scrollViewDidZoom:.