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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Data Modeling Creating a Custom Class: Part 1

Areeb Bajwa
Areeb Bajwa
5,638 Points
Posted by Areeb Bajwa
Areeb Bajwa
5,638 Points

Setting using the getter method!?

Near the end of the video, Amit assigns a value to blogPost.title which supposed to be a getter method which simply "returns" the title. Is this a mistake? He later adds that you can also do [blogPost setTitle:...] which seems to be the only correct way to me.

1 Answer

Ryan Ackermann
Ryan Ackermann
14,665 Points
Ryan Ackermann
Ryan Ackermann
14,665 Points

Hello Areeb,

Objective-C can be a bit confusing. Both [blogPost setTitle:@"Something useful."] and blogPost.title = @"Something useful." accomplish the same thing. It is merely a programming style like curly braces:

- (void)someMethod {

}

Or

- (void)someMethod
{

}

Both examples are valid method signatures just as the two different styles of using setters.

Choose one and be consistent and your good to go :)