ARC下IBOutlet用weak还是strong

原文来自这里。

今天用Xcode5的时候，发现默认的IBoutlet的属性设置为weak——因为Xcode5建立的工程都是ARC的了。但是当时还有点不明白，因为项目的原因，一直没有正式使用过ARC。于是，为了搞清楚为什么，google了一下，有很多答案。试着从Apple文档寻找线索，在这里找到了说明：

From a practical perspective, in iOS and OS X outlets should be defined as declared properties. Outlets should generally be weak, except for those from File’s Owner to top-level objects in a nib file (or, in iOS, a storyboard scene) which should be strong. Outlets that you create should therefore typically be weak, because:

Outlets that you create to subviews of a view controller’s view or a window controller’s window, for example, are arbitrary references between objects that do not imply ownership.

The strong outlets are frequently specified by framework classes (for example, UIViewController’s view outlet, or NSWindowController’swindow outlet).

简单的说，如果IBOutlet对象是nib/sb scene的拥有者（File’s owner）所持有的对象，那么很显然拥有者必须“拥有”对象的指针，因此属性应设置为strong。而其他的IBOutlet对象的属性需要设置为weak，因为拥有者并不需要“拥有”他们的指针。举例来说，UIViewController的view属性是strong，因为controller要直接拥有view。而添加到view上的subviews，作为IBOutlet只需要设置为weak就可以了，因为他们不是controller直接拥有的。直接拥有subviews的是controller的view，ARC会帮助管理内存。

紧接着，文档里又提到：

Outlets should be changed to strong when the outlet should be considered to own the referenced object:

As indicated previously, this is often the case with File’s Owner—top level objects in a nib file are frequently considered to be owned by the File’s Owner.

You may in some situations need an object from a nib file to exist outside of its original container. For example, you might have an outlet for a view that can be temporarily removed from its initial view hierarchy and must therefore be maintained independently.

第一种情形前面已经解释过了，对于第二种，通俗点将，就是controller需要直接控制某一个subview并且将subview添加到其他的view tree上去。

单纯从ARC的角度思考，用weak也是很显然的：因为subview添加到view上时，view会“拥有”subview。当然，给IBOutlet属性设置为strong也没有错，“纠结谁对谁错“的问题可能需要上升到模式或者编码习惯的问题，已经超出本文的范围。

最后附上stakoverflow上的答案：

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7678469/should-iboutlets-be-strong-or-weak-under-arc/7729141#7729141

除了选中的答案之外，其他人的回答也非常有意思，大家可以看看。

巴特西

ARC下IBOutlet用weak还是strong

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