Question

Say I have an object initialized right before a method’s return statement…

MyObj* myObj = [[MyObj alloc] initWithOpt1:opt1 withOpt2:opt2];
return myObj;

Is it possible to release it after the return statement? Doing so before defeats the purpose of init’ing it to begin with, right? Otherwise, what’s the best way to handle this?

Answer 1

Autorelease was created precisely to solve this problem.

MyObj* myObj = [[MyObj alloc] initWithOpt1:opt1 withOpt2:opt2];
return [myObj autorelease];

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmAutoreleasePools.html