Question

Suppose I want to reset an object to its initial state. It seems like the natural thing to do would be to run it through its init method — but Apple guidelines are that I only want to do this once.

Creating a new object is not a satisfactory solution, because I need to preserve pointers to the object from elsewhere.

The object is part of a large class hierarchy. I will probably want to be able to reset most anything in the hierarchy.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

Create a reset method. This method could then in turn be called by init and if it is in a hiearchy all classes should implement it and call super reset.