iPhone: Memory leak when using NSOperationQueue...
- by MacTouch
Hi,
I'm sitting here for at least half an hour to find a memory leak in my code.
I just replaced an synchronous call to a (touch) method with an asynchronous one using NSOperationQueue.
The Leak Inspector reports a memory leak after I did the change to the code.
What's wrong with the version using NSOperationQueue?
Version without a MemoryLeak
-(NSData *)dataForKey:(NSString*)ressourceId_
{
NSString *path = [self cachePathForKey:ressourceId_]; // returns an autoreleased NSString*
NSString *cacheKey = [self cacheKeyForRessource:ressourceId_]; // returns an autoreleased NSString*
NSData *data = [[self memoryCache] valueForKey:cacheKey];
if (!data)
{
data = [self loadData:path]; // returns an autoreleased NSData*
if (data)
{
[[self memoryCache] setObject:data forKey:cacheKey];
}
}
[[self touch:path];
return data;
}
Version with a MemoryLeak (I do not see any)
-(NSData *)dataForKey:(NSString*)ressourceId_
{
NSString *path = [self cachePathForKey:ressourceId_]; // returns an autoreleased NSString*
NSString *cacheKey = [self cacheKeyForRessource:ressourceId_]; // returns an autoreleased NSString*
NSData *data = [[self memoryCache] valueForKey:cacheKey];
if (!data)
{
data = [self loadData:path]; // returns an autoreleased NSData*
if (data)
{
[[self memoryCache] setObject:data forKey:cacheKey];
}
}
NSInvocationOperation *touchOp = [[NSInvocationOperation alloc] initWithTarget:self selector:@selector(touch:) object:path];
[[self operationQueue] addOperation:touchOp];
[touchOp release];
return data;
}
And of course, the touch method does nothing special too. Just change the date of the file.
-(void)touch:(id)path_
{
NSString *path = (NSString *)path_
NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
if ([fm fileExistsAtPath:path])
{
NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSDate date], NSFileModificationDate, nil];
[fm setAttributes: attributes ofItemAtPath:path error:nil];
}
}