#properties

In Objective-C, a property can have the following attributes applied to it: atomic nonatomic assign retain copy The scenerio is that these attributes are applied to the properties for us but what happens if we want setting/getting a property's value to have a side-effect? In this article, I implement the different possible combinations of property attributes to show how we can have custom getters and setters in our .m files while still honouring the property attributes declared in our .h files. Non-atomi…

When editing legacy code you sometimes come across the scenario where a getter and setter method has been created that performs the same job as a property would but a property wasn’t used. So you decide to tidy it and create a property for that instance variable. However the getter and setter don’t conform to the naming convention that Apple uses for properties, that's where the getter and setter attribute for properties comes in handle. These attributes let you create a custom name for the getter and sette…