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Re: How to make KVO setup persistent?
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Re: How to make KVO setup persistent?


  • Subject: Re: How to make KVO setup persistent?
  • From: mmalc crawford <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:17:05 -0700


On Jul 28, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Arthur C. wrote:

Finally I have a working solution. It sets up KVO again after application restart. It is as follows:

It's not clear exactly what you're trying to achieve, but the following is certainly not a correct solution for anything.

-(void) awakeFromFetch
{
// first, fetch the 'Age' object with index equal to [self index] using NSFetchRequest


Age * myAge = [[Age alloc] init];
myAge = [fetchResults objectAtIndex: 0]; // only one object gets fetched


You've now leaked an instance of Age (you lost the reference to the one you alloced in the first line).
It's not clear where fetchResults comes from.


      [myAge index]; // to get rid of the 'fault' state (!)

It's not clear why you need to "get rid of the fault state" -- fault handling should typically be transparent.

      [myAgeArray addObject: myAge];

What is myAgeArray? Is it a persistent property? You're modifying it in a non-KVO-compliant way.


[self addObserver: [myAgeArray lastObject] forKeyPath:@"yearofbirth" options: NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:managedObjectContext];

The context here should almost certainly not be the managed object context.

 [myAgeArray dealloc];

You should never invoke another object's dealloc method directly. See the memory management documentation...

The point is that the fetched 'Age' needs to be retained, or else it will get autoreleased and dealloced.

... yes, that's expected behaviour...


I believe this problem is covered in the KVO programming Guide, where it (only) says:
"Note: The key-value observing addObserver:forKeyPath:options:context method does not retain the observing object or the observed objects. You need to review your application's requirements and manage retain and release for the observing, and observed objects."


... which simply means that you must follow normal memory management rules. Observing something doesn't mean it won't go away unless you've taken ownership of it.

You should review at least <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Concepts/ObjectOwnership.html >.

mmalc



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