Best way to set a retained property to a newly created object

Question

Which is the best way to handle creating an object to live in a retained property? I\'ve included several examples.

Assume the property is:

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Answer 1

Option 1 is correct.

Option 2 is absolutely wrong. You never call -release on the results of a property accessor.

Option 3 is avoiding properties entirely. This is actually correct in your -init method, but in other methods it's better to use the property setter unless you have a good reason to avoid it.

Option 4 is correct as well, though it's more verbose than option 1. Your call.

Edit: I misread your option 4 originally.