Question

I ran the ‘Analyze’ on my code and the result shows a potential memory leak on the following part of my code

NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];

//Potential memory leak in code below
[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];

I am not sure how to stop this leak. I tried to add a ‘autorelease’ to the back but that caused a crash. Any advise on this?

EDIT:

Screenshot of the leak message

Answer 1

Your call to alloc on NSURLConnection is returning an object with a reference count of 1. Your code should be as following:

NSURLConnection *connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
[connection start]; // This is optional.  It should begin the request after you alloc it

After you are done with the object, you need to explicitly call:

[connection release];