iphone parent-child objects relationship

I have a "NewsViewController" which has a property named "postViewController" of type PostViewController. From inside the PostViewController I would like to call a method of the NewsViewController class. What is the easiest way to do this ?

After googling that question, it seems like I should use a delegate or send a notification but I was hoping there would be a simpler way to do this like [self.parent parentMethod]...

Please tell me there IS a simpler way to do this! :) (and if there isn't pleas开发者_StackOverflow中文版e explain why!)

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it seems like I should use a delegate or send a notification but I was hoping there would be a simpler way to do this like [self.parent parentMethod].

That is a delegate, at its most basic level. Create a property on the child object of a type that handles parentMethod messages. Your parent assigns self to it after instantiating the child object or your child object exposes an init... method that lets you pass it in.

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Use the super keyword: [super parentMethod]

See this answer: What exactly is super in Objective-C?