On Oct 28, 2008, at 00:19, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:
Is it ok to bind my column to a property that is, in fact, not a
property but just a method that returns a string... or should I
create an actual instance variable "NSString *fileName" with a
regular getter and setter....?
A property *is* just a method (or, if readwrite, a pair of methods --
the getter and the setter). The instance variable, if there is one, is
"merely" an implementation detail within the class. Some properties
don't use an instance variable (NSString's lastPathComponent property
almost certainly doesn't, for example). Some properties (like your
"fileName") use an instance variable, but compute a value from it.
Furthermore, assuming that your File class has both filePath and
fileName properties, then your fileName implementation:
return [filePath lastPathComponent];
might alternatively be:
return [self.filePath lastPathComponent];
If you get the difference, you're home free, conceptually. (The 2nd
one extracts the file name from your filePath property, without any
assumption about how the property is implemented. The 1st one uses a
convenient instance variable that happens to contain the information
you want. Either approach is fine in this case, but in more
complicated cases, it's important to distinguish between the value of
the property and the value of some variable.)
Finally, you also need to pay attention to KVO compliance. Assuming
your filePath property is compliant (meaning that changes to it
produce the proper KVO notifications), your fileName property isn't
(unless the filePath never changes in a File object after it is
initialized, in which case the question is moot).
HTH
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