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Re: NSError help
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Re: NSError help


  • Subject: Re: NSError help
  • From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:05:19 -0500

On Oct 24, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Tom Jones wrote:

> I'm trying to understand why I'm getting thrown in to the debugger when using NSError. I have three methods and I'm overloading them and trying to pass the NSError along the way. What am I doing wrong?

> -(NSString *)getDataForType:(NSString *)aType error:(NSError **)err
> {
>    NSError *localErr = nil;
>    NSString *result = [self getDataForType:aType separator:@"\t" excludeFields:nil error:&localErr];
>    *err = *localErr;

This is incorrect.  The left and right sides are of two different types.  The compiler should have at least warned, if not given an error.

"*localErr" is an NSError.  It's not an NSError* (pointer to NSError), it's actually the type of the object (or struct).  There's almost never a case to dereference an object pointer like this.

"*err" is an NSError*, a pointer to an NSError.

What you wanted is:

	*err = localErr;

Actually, if you're not doing more with localErr, you can just eliminate it and just do:

   NSString *result = [self getDataForType:aType separator:@"\t" excludeFields:nil error:err];

The same mistake affects the next method, too.

>    return result;
> }

Regards,
Ken

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