Property can retain an autoreleased object?

Question

If I do this:

@property (nonatomic, retain) SomeObject* someInstance;

Why isn't someInstance still around even when I use an autorelease initializer on it?

For example:

someInstance=[SomeObject autoreleaseMethod];

I would expect someInstance to retain it in this case so you can use someInstance later, but is this not true?

Answer 1

Your property will only retain the object if you are using it's setter. In your example you forgot the self. :

self.someInstance = [SomeObject autoreleasedObject];