Question

I have a class named myClass that contains 3 NSInteger and I can’t do a method like that:

- (myClass)getClass {
    myClass *class1;
    return class1
}

it gives me an error

EDIT: the error is in the .h

- (myClass *)getClass; Error: expected ')' before 'myClass'

Answer 1

I suppose you want to return an instance of myClass. You can do that like this:

- (myClass *)getClass {
  myClass *class1 = [[[myClass alloc] init] autorelease];
  return class1;
}

If instead you want to return the class itself:

- (Class)getClass {
  return myClass;
}

You can change the - to a + if you want it to be a class method instead of an instance method. Your question wasn’t quite clear.

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In Objective-C you can never return an object by value, since the size of an object in Objective-C isn’t known at compile time. If you don’t like the asterisks everywhere you can do typedef myClass* myClassRef and return a myClassRef instead.