Question

I am not a Cocoa developer, but I have been dabbling in it to build some plugins for PhoneGap. This particular plugin method is either 1) crashing the app without saying why or 2) complaining about how I release/don’t release an object. I have tried a ton of things on my end, including using an Enumerator instead of the for loop. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be awesome. I don’t mind legwork:

- (void)getPreferences:(NSMutableArray*)arguments withDict:(NSMutableDictionary*)options {
    NSUInteger argc = [arguments count];
    NSString* jsCallback = nil;

    if (argc > 0) {
        jsCallback = [arguments objectAtIndex:0];
    } else {
        NSLog(@"Preferences.getPreferences: Missing 1st parameter.");
        return;
    }

    NSDictionary *defaults = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] dictionaryRepresentation];
    NSMutableArray *keys = (NSMutableArray *) [options objectForKey:@"keys"];
    NSMutableDictionary *values = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

    NSUInteger ky = [keys count];
    for (int i = 0; i < ky; i ++) {
        @try {

            [values  setObject:[defaults objectForKey:[keys objectAtIndex:i]] forKey:[keys objectAtIndex:i]];
        }
        @catch (NSException * err) {
            NSLog(@"Error %@", err);
        }
    }

    [keys release];

    NSString* jsString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@(%@);", jsCallback, [values JSONRepresentation]];

    [defaults release];
    [values release];

    [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:jsString];

    [jsString release];
}

Human version:

1. options contains a dictionary with a single key of “keys”
2. that key contains an array of strings (that are going to be used as keys for lookup)
3. I want to loop through that array and
4. For every value that exists in defaults for that key, copy it to values using the same key
5. Finally, I want to send that values back as JSON (This part was working when I just passed the entire defaults object in, so I think the JSON method is working)

Answer 1

From your code, it follows that you ‘own’ objects values and jsString (the ones you created with alloc), so you should release them and not any other.
You can read more on memory management here.

Is this the whole code? Also, what exactly error do you get?