iOS MVC - can the Model reference UIImage, etc?

[CaptSaltyJack]

Let's say I want to define a simple class, "Person." Something like:

class Person : NSObject
{
  NSString *name;
  int age;
  UIImage *portrait;
}

Is it OK to use user interface objects in the Model? Is there some other, better way of attaching a user photo to each person?

 

[PhoneyDeveloper]

UIImage is a data object, not a view object. Maybe you meant UIImageView?

It's perfectly reasonable for a Person object to have a reference to a UIImage related to that Person object. It wouldn't be so good for it to have a ref to a UIImageView.

 

[CaptSaltyJack]

Nope, I did indeed mean UIImage (data). Cool, that's all I wanted to know.. thanks!