On Oct 24, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Tom Jones wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to understand why I'm getting thrown in to the debugger when using
> NSError. I have three methods and I'm overloading them and trying to pass the
> NSError along the way. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> tom
>
>
> Code:
>
> -(NSString *)getDataForType:(NSString *)aType error:(NSError **)err
> {
> NSError *localErr = nil;
> NSString *result = [self getDataForType:aType separator:@"\t"
> excludeFields:nil error:&localErr];
> *err = *localErr;
> return result;
> }
This is assigning an objective-C class object (however big it happens to be) to
a pointer. It makes no sense. I'm not even sure how it could have compiled
without errors or warnings.
>
> -(NSString *)getDataForType:(NSString *)aType excludeFields:(NSArray
> *)aFields error:(NSError **)err
> {
> NSError *localErr = nil;
> NSString *result = [self getDataForType:aType separator:@"\t"
> excludeFields:aFields error:&localErr];
> *err = *localErr;
> return result;
> }
Same as above.
>
> -(NSString *)getDataForType:(NSString *)aType separator:(NSString
> *)aSeperator excludeFields:(NSArray *)aFields error:(NSError **)err
> {
> BOOL isValidQuery = [self hasValidType:aType];
> if (isValidQuery == NO) {
> NSMutableDictionary *errorDetail = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
> [errorDetail setValue:@"Failed to find the requested type."
> forKey:NSLocalizedDescriptionKey];
> *err = [NSError errorWithDomain:@"DataForType" code:1
> userInfo:errorDetail];
> return nil;
> } else {
> err = nil;
> }
> ...
> ...
> ...
> }
This is fine, although the code in the else is useless. If you mean to make the
pointer pointed to by err to nil, then maybe *err=nil would be OK, although
typical Cocoa idiom is that err is meaningless if the function succeeds, so
there's not really any need to set it to anything at all, except on failure.
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