Re: Returning nil from -init
Re: Returning nil from -init
- Subject: Re: Returning nil from -init
- From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:03:25 +0000
On 12/3/03 9:58 am, Aram Greenman <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 01:18 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:
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> I've got an init method that can fail if some of the input contains
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> incorrect data, and I understand the correct approach is to return nil
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> in
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> this case. But it isn't clear to me what to do with the partial object
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> pointed at by self in this case. Is calling dealloc or release
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> appropriate?
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release.
I guess that works correctly since NSObject is one of the superclasses and
therefore [super init] has initialized the ref counting stuff.
That makes sense.
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The only other change I would make to the code you posted is to just
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return nil instead of assigning nil to self and returning self, but
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that's mostly style.
Or religion :-)
Thanks for the replies everyone!
Cheers,
Chris
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