Re: NSURLRequest : Unable to Quit App after Syn call to Server.

FROM : stephen joseph butler
DATE : Fri May 16 16:53:21 2008

Your code is crashing because you have numerous pointer and memory
management issues.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:21 PM, <<email_removed>> wrote:
> - (IBAction)startSOAP:(id)sender {
>    NSError **myError;


NSError *myError;

>    NSHTTPURLResponse **serverResponse;


NSHTTPURLResponse *serverResponse;


>    NSData *serverData;
>
>    @try {
>
>        // 1) The Request String.  {not used yet}
>        // Note: smsXMLString contains the entire SMS SOAP envelope, without the <? XML declaration command >.
>        NSString *smsXMLPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"sms" ofType:@"xml"];
>        self.smsXMLString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:smsXMLPath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:myError];


Use &myError

>        // -----------------------
>        // 2)  Create the request.
>        NSURLRequest *theRequest=[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:theServerURL]
>                                                  cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
>                                              timeoutInterval:10.0];
>
>        // -----------------------
>        // 3)  Get Synchronous Data:
>        serverData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:theRequest
>                                                                  returningResponse:serverResponse
>                                                                  error:myError];


Again, &myError and &serverResponse

>        // -----------------------
>        // 4)  Convert Synchronous Data into Human-Readable String (Unicode 8) format:
>        NSString *serverDataString = [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:serverData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] retain];


This is an extra retain.

>        [[soapResponse layoutManager]replaceTextStorage:[[NSTextStorage alloc] initWithString:serverDataString]];
>
>        [serverDataString release];
>
>    } @catch (id e) {
>        NSLog(@"\n**** EXCEPTION: %@ ****\n",e);
>        self.statusLine.stringValue = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"*** Exception flagged: %@ ***",e];
>    } @finally {
>
>        NSLog(@"\n end.");
>    }
>
>
> } // end startSOAP().
>
> // -----------------------------------------------
>
> - (IBAction)terminateSOAP:(id)sender {
>    NSLog(@"\n GoodBye.\n");
>    [NSApp stop:self];    // <-------- Does not work when above routine was performed.
> }