Hello everyone,
I had some very basic questions about memory management in Axis2/C and hope
I can clarify my doubts with your help. I did go through the article on
memory management => http://wso2.org/library/237 but still have some
questions.
1. I am working on a new webservice for which I just copied the 'math'
service from the samples and have been just modifying it. In the 'add'
operation of the 'math' service, there are some calls to
axiom_element_get_text function which returns a const axis2_char_t* to
retrieve the parameters from the soap xml document. Who is responsible for
freeing up this memory? I assume since its const pointer and I didnt
explicitly allocate memory, it will be clened up by the framework. But when
does this happen? I looked at the math_free function in math_skeleton.c file
but it doesn't tell me much. Is this when the clean up happens?
int AXIS2_CALL
math_free(axis2_svc_skeleton_t *svc_skeleton,
const axutil_env_t *env)
{
if (svc_skeleton)
{
AXIS2_FREE(env->allocator, svc_skeleton);
svc_skeleton = NULL;
}
return AXIS2_SUCCESS;
}
2. Is there any advantage in using the AXIS2_MALLOC over jus malloc? From my
understanding, AXIS2_MALLOC just hides the env specific implementation of
memory allocation. So if I am using 'C' either malloc or AXIS2_MALLOC are
one and the same. Am I correct? On a similar note, is there any advantage in
using axis2_char_t* over just char*?
I thank all of you for ur help and patience as I try to understand the Axis2
framework.
Subra
