Wouldn’t be possible to implement dealloc in that class and put an NSLog call there? Of course, in an ARC project, you wouldn’t call [super dealloc] but would that cause a problem?
-Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software laur...@nemesys-soft.com On Aug 20, 2013, at 17:45, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > On Aug 20, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses wrote: > >> An itemStore object creates a worker object (property of itemStore object) >> that hold a weak reference back to the itemStore object; >> When the worker classes is done, it sets the itemStore object (of which the >> worker class itself is a property) to nil. > > It doesn't set the object to nil. It sets its reference to the itemStore > object to nil. > >> This project uses ARC. >> >> So within itemStore I do: >> self.worker = [[Worker alloc] init]; >> [self.worker setItemStore:self]; >> >> In Worker.h I do >> @property (nonatomic, weak) ItemStore *itemStore; >> >> In Worker.m, when all its tasks are done, I do >> self.itemStore = nil; >> >> I assume this completely destroys the itemStore object and all objects it >> exclusively owns. > > No. The itemStore property of Worker is weak. That means it does not > influence the lifetime of the itemStore object it references. Setting the > reference to nil simply makes it no longer reference that object. > > >> Is there any way to NSLog the destruction of the itemStore object? >> >> I tried putting a log in itemStore's dealloc method, but it doesn't show up >> in the console. > > Putting a call to NSLog() in the -dealloc would be the way to detect it. > Nothing is showing up because the itemStore object is not being deallocated. > > If you want to deallocate it, you have to make sure to clear all strong > references to it. Clearing weak references doesn't help. > > Regards, > Ken > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/laurent%40nemesys-soft.com > > This email sent to laur...@nemesys-soft.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
