NSDate & Memory management
- by iFloh
Hi, memory management still gives me grief. This time it is an NSDate iVar that I init using
NSDate *myNSDate = [[NSDate date] firstDayOfMonth];
with a method call to
- (NSDate *)firstDayOfMonth {
NSDateComponents *tmpDateComponents = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar]
components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSEraCalendarUnit | NSWeekCalendarUnit | NSWeekdayOrdinalCalendarUnit
fromDate:self];
[tmpDateComponents setDay:1];
[tmpDateComponents setHour:0];
[tmpDateComponents setMinute:0];
[tmpDateComponents setSecond:0];
return [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] dateFromComponents:tmpDateComponents];
}
At the end of the init call the retain count is at 1 (Note the iVar is not defined as a property).
When I step into the viewWillAppear method the myNSDate has vanished. I tried to do an explicit retain on it, but that only lasts until I update the iVar using the above method again.
I though - ok - I add the retain to the return of the function, but that makes the leak analyser throw up an error.
What am I doing wrong?
