Re: CoreData retain/release/delete

FROM : Scott Stevenson
DATE : Fri Apr 29 22:29:46 2005

On Apr 29, 2005, at 1:22 PM, John Brownlow wrote:

> Yeah, I've made pretty much everything in my app a custom subclass
> just so I can use proper accessors instead of the error prone
> -valueForKey.


Seems fine to me.  :)


> How about over-riding -dealloc like this, in appropriate subclasses?
>
> - (void) dealloc
> {
>     // regular dealloc stuff
>
>     [[self managedObjectContext] deleteObject: self];
> }
>
> It seems like it would work and is reasonably elegant, but it seems a
> bit too obvious to be valid code! :)


This won't work because your object could be dealloc'd for a number of
different reasons. In fact, this would probably cause an infinite loop
or crash of some sort. For that matter, I don't think you're supposed
to override the stock -dealloc implementation.


  - Scott

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