Creating Person Class with Objective-C

Question

I'm starting to learn Objective-C and I want to create a simple Person class with name, photo, address (house number, street name, postal code, city), phone.

I'm not sure if I have to use NSArray or NSDictionary for the address attribute. I already created a Person class and I placed my code in Person.h

@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *name;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *photo;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *address;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSArray *phone;

No @user4261201 create another custom model class – Wain Apr 29 '16 at 14:11 — Wain, Apr 29 '16 at 14:11

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '16 at 14:14

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The address should not be an NSArray or an NSDictionary. It should be another custom class Address. This class should then have its own attributes for house number, street name, postal code, city, country, etc.

If you want a person to have more than one address, then address should be a dictionary where the keys are labels for each address and the values are instance of Address.

Your phone property should also be a dictionary if you wish to support more than one phone number per person.

You should look at the CNContact and related classes for examples of how Apple does it.

answered Apr 29 '16 at 14:14

rmaddy

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This is the best solution. My solution below is more loosely bound and does not give proper structure to the Address as an entity. – Vijay Tholpadi Apr 29 '16 at 14:21
Thank you, I'll try this and let you know if it works :) – Nedim Apr 29 '16 at 14:55
Should it be a Subclass of NSObject or Person? – Nedim May 02 '16 at 07:14
I assume you are asking about the `Address` class. Since an Address isn't a Person, the `Address` class should be a subclass of `NSObject`. – rmaddy May 02 '16 at 14:04

Creating Person Class with Objective-C

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