UITableView and retaining cells

Does a UITableView instance send a retain message to each of its queued reusable cells?

[The point being I have a custom cell which I want to autorelease in 开发者_如何学编程a (class) method within the custom cell class.]

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Yes, the tableview retains the cells you return in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method. That's why the cell objects in the default implementation of that method are autoreleased.

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How you get the custom cell in the first place? Most likely it's retrieved via the mainBundle's loadNibNamed method which you don't have the responsibility to release it anyway.