Add an objective @property attribute in objective-c
- by morticae
Does anyone know of a way to add additional attribute types to the @property keyword without modifying the compiler? Or can anyone think of another way to genericize getter/setter creation?
Basically, I have a lot of cases in a recent project where it's handy for objects to lazily instantiate their array properties. This is because we have "event" objects that can have a wide variety of collections as properties. Subclassing for particular events is undesirable because many properties are shared, and it would become a usability nightmare.
For example, if I had an object with an array of songs, I'd write a getter like the following:
- (NSMutableArray *)songs {
if (!songs) {
songs = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
}
return songs;
}
Rather than writing dozens of these getters, it would be really nice to get the behavior via...
@property (nonatomic, retain, lazyGetter) NSMutableArray *songs;
Maybe some fancy tricks via #defines or something? Other ideas?
