Question

I have an ObjC object defined as follows

@interface Fruit : NSObject
{
    int fruitsinbranch[4];
}
@property (readonly) int fruitsinbranch[4];
@end

And then in the implementations I have the usual

@synthesize fruitsinbranch[4];

It does not work. What’s the right way of doing it?

(And no, I am not asking for other ways to do stuff, like NSArray etc… I want an answer to the question I posed).

UPDATE: my solution is lame but it works. I created the method

-(int) fruitsinbranch:(int) i

That gave a solution close enough to what I wanted.

Answer 1

The closest thing you can get is to use an int* property and not synthesize the getter:

 @interface Fruit : NSObject {
     int fruitsinbranch[4];
 }
 @property (readonly) int* fruitsinbranch;
 - (int *)fruitsinbranch { return fruitsinbranch; }