Question

I am unable to release NSMutableArray that I created in a method.

SqliteData *s = [SqliteData alloc];

items = [NSArray alloc];
items = [s getItems:parent];
[s release];

IN SQLITeDATA class

-(NSMutableArray *)getItems:(NSString *)parent
{
    NSMutableArray *items = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] init]autorelease];
    return items
}

The app crashes, if I remove the autorelease it works fine.

Answer 1

The correct version is :

SqliteData *s = [[SqliteData alloc] init];
items = [[s getItems:parent] retain];
[s release];

Which is similar, but less optimized, to :

SqliteData *s = [[[SqliteData alloc] init] autorelease];
items = [[s getItems:parent] retain];

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Beware about memory leaks :

SqliteData *s = [SqliteData alloc];
items = [NSArray alloc]; // memory leak there!
items = [s getItems:parent];
[s release];

You are leaking memory, since your replace newly allocated items address with another.

And alloc without init is a non-sense. (you are allocating memory, but not initialized it!)