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From my understanding both of the following getter methods reference the actual object.
So what is the difference between the two?
When and why would you want to use the second getter method?
- (MyObject *)myObject
{
return _myObject;
}
- (void)getMyObject:(MyObject **)myObject
{
if (!myObject)
{
*myObject = _myObject;
}
}
You would not use the second one.
Unless you like confusing people/yourself at a later date by not following the standard conventions.
It would make more sense if there was another piece of data that could also be returned for example look at
NSManagedObjectContextThe important result of the method is
YES/NOdid it save, but then we can also get anNSErrorobject to inspect if there was an error.