Question

I use an object to get some values with it and return this values.
The values which will be returned are still in this object.
Heres the code:

    XMLErrorParser *xmlErrorParser = [XMLErrorParser alloc];
    [xmlErrorParser parseData: data];
    return xmlErrorParser.errors;

So how can i release the xmlErrorParser Object and return the values of it?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Just return an auto-released version of the object errors holds.

Without giving us more details about what XMLErrorParser is, lets assume that errors holds some NSArray:

XMLErrorParser *xmlErrorParser = [[XMLErrorParser alloc] init];
[xmlErrorParser parseData: data];
NSArray *errors = [[xmlErrorParser.errors retain] autorelease];
[xmlErrorParser release];
return errors;

(Note that you were missing the initialization for the error parser object.)