iOS5 ARC，IBOutlets 应该定义strong还是weak

有人问，在ARC下，IBOutlets到底应该定义成strong 还是 weak ？支持这个答案的人最多，答案仅是摘自官方文档的一个片段：

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 will therefore typically be weak by default, because:

• Outlets that you create to, for example, subviews of a view controller’s view or a window controller’s window, 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’s window outlet).

  @property (weak) IBOutlet MyView *viewContainerSubview;
  @property (strong) IBOutlet MyOtherClass *topLevelObject;

 

 

 

大意解释是：

在 ARC 中,一般outlet属性都推荐使用 weak,应该使用 strong 的 outlet 是 File's Owner连接到 nib 的顶层对象。

什么是 File's Owner连接到 nib 的顶层对象呢？

 

说白话一点，就是自定义的view，不是直接作为main view里面一个sub view直接显示出来，而是需要通过实例化创建出来的。你自己实例化，当然需要strong了，不然谁还替你保留对象所有权呢？