What is the Objective-C equivalent of a public get/protected set property in C#
c#, objective-c, properties
Solution
The easiest way to accomplish this is to declare the property as `readonly` in the public interface for `MyClass` (i.e. the .h file):
@property (readonly) NSInteger prop;
Then, in .m file for that class, declare a class extension (a category with an empty name). In class extensions, you may redeclare a @property to change its writeability to readwrite:
@interface MyClass ()
@property (readwrite) NSInteger prop;
@end
@implementation MyClass
@synthesize prop;
...
@end
Of course, Objective-C does not enforce access restrictions, so there's nothing stopping some rogue code from calling `-[MyClass setProp:]`. The compiler will flag this as a warning, however, which is as good as you can get in Objective-C. Unfortunately, there is no standard way to document this "protected" writeable property to subclasses; you'll have to settle on a convention for your team and or put it in the public documentation for the class if it's in a framework that you're going to release.
Problem
Is there any way to create a property like this C# property in Objective-C? ``` public int prop { get; protected set;} ``` Essentially, I want to make it possible to get the value from outside the class, but to only be able to set the value from within the class.