UITableView 中NSIndexPath

在NSTableView中用到NSIndexPath的section和row属性来确定分组和行数,  但是跳到NSIndexPath中发现并没有这两个属性. 

#import <Foundation/NSObject.h>

@interface NSIndexPath : NSObject <NSCopying, NSSecureCoding> {
	@private
	__strong NSUInteger *_indexes;
#if !__OBJC2__
	NSUInteger _hash;
#endif
	NSUInteger _length;
        void *_reserved;
}

+ (instancetype)indexPathWithIndex:(NSUInteger)index;
+ (instancetype)indexPathWithIndexes:(const NSUInteger [])indexes length:(NSUInteger)length;

- (instancetype)initWithIndexes:(const NSUInteger [])indexes length:(NSUInteger)length NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER;

- (instancetype)initWithIndex:(NSUInteger)index;


- (NSIndexPath *)indexPathByAddingIndex:(NSUInteger)index;
- (NSIndexPath *)indexPathByRemovingLastIndex;

- (NSUInteger)indexAtPosition:(NSUInteger)position;
@property (readonly) NSUInteger length;

- (void)getIndexes:(NSUInteger *)indexes;

	// comparison support
- (NSComparisonResult)compare:(NSIndexPath *)otherObject; // sorting an array of indexPaths using this comparison results in an array representing nodes in depth-first traversal order

@end

查看NSIndexPath头文件发现并没有这两个属性,于是我去查看官方文档发现这个

The NSIndexPath class represents the path to a specific node in a tree of nested array collections. This path is known as an index path.

Each index in an index path represents the index into an array of children from one node in the tree to another, deeper, node. For example, the index path 1.4.3.2 specifies the path shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1Index path 1.4.3.2

NOTE

iOS adds programming interfaces to the NSIndexPath class of the Foundation framework to facilitate the identification of rows and sections in UITableView objects. The API consists of a class method and two properties. The indexPathForRow:inSection: method creates an NSIndexPathobject from row and section index numbers. The properties return the row index number and the section index number from such objects. See NSIndexPath UIKit Additions for details.

意思是说NSIndexPath 类 就是表示 一个结点在树中具体位置, 有个提示是iOS,Foundation框架中UITableView 添加了一个接口,  这个接口包含一个类方法和两个属性,跳到UITableView头文件查看果然有

// This category provides convenience methods to make it easier to use an NSIndexPath to represent a section and row
@interface NSIndexPath (UITableView)

+ (NSIndexPath *)indexPathForRow:(NSInteger)row inSection:(NSInteger)section;

@property(nonatomic,readonly) NSInteger section;
@property(nonatomic,readonly) NSInteger row;

@end

可以看出, 通过分类实现这一功能的, 但是分类不是只能添加方法不能添加属性吗?

这里用到运行时关联引用

http://www.jianshu.com/p/3cbab68fb856