Question

I have overwritten my UITableViewController didSelectRowAtIndexPath method the following way:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    PhotoListViewController *photosViewController = [[PhotoListViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain];

    NSLog(@"Let's see what we got %d", [[fetchedResultsController fetchedObjects] count]);

    Person *person = [fetchedResultsController objectAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    photosViewController.person = person;
    photosViewController.title = [person.name stringByAppendingString:@"'s Photos"];

    [self.navigationController pushViewController:photosViewController animated:YES];

    [photosViewController release];
}

Whenever I try to access the fetchedResultsController I get the crash, I set it here:

- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewStyle)style
{
    self = [super initWithStyle:style];
    if (self) {
        NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"person = %@", person];
        fetchedResultsController = [[FlickrFetcher sharedInstance] fetchedResultsControllerForEntity:@"Photo" withPredicate:predicate];
    }
    return self;
}

And I only release it in my dealloc method

Answer 1

Seems like your autorelease pool is getting drained before your didSelectRowAtIndexPath method is called. Did you try retaining the fetchedResultsController like so:

fetchedResultsController = [[[FlickrFetcher sharedInstance] fetchedResultsControllerForEntity:@"Photo" withPredicate:predicate] retain];