Question

Ok, I know the answer to this question should be obvious, but I need a little push in the right direction.

I find myself writing a fair number of methods that follow the following pattern:

-(NSThing*)myMethod{

  NSThing *thing = [[NSthing alloc] init];
  // do some stuff with the thing
  return thing;
}

My question is, how do I handle the release of this object? Clearly I can’t release it within the method.

Answer 1

usually you would autorelease it

-(NSThing*)myMethod{

  NSThing *thing = [[NSthing alloc] init];
  // do some stuff with the thing
  return [thing autorelease];
}