Application get crash while using NSAutoreleasepool inside MKMapview regionDidChangeAnimated method

Question

Hi, i am working on a map application, in that i like to drop the pins (as in Zillow apps) when ever user change the map view. I am using following code code. i am try to load the xml data from server using NSAutoreleasepool to do the xml parsing in the background thread.

• (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView regionDidChangeAnimated:(BOOL)animated{

  NSLog(@"inside region did changed ");

  urlString =[NSString stringWithFormat: @"http://asdfasdasdf.com/asdfasdf/mapxml.php];
  
  
  [stories1 release];
  
  
  [mapview removeAnnotations:eventPoints1];
  
  
  eventPoints1 = [[NSMutableArray array] retain];
  
  
  [self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(callParsing) withObject:nil];
  

}

-(void)callParsing{

NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

[self parseXMLFileAtURL:urlString];

[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(droppingPin) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:YES];

[pool drain];

}

The above code is working fine, but once i changed the mapview, the appllication get crashed. Anyone can help me to fix the issue?

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

urlString is already autoreleased when it is returned from stringWithFormat. Since you are using urlString in callParsing which is executed on a different thread, you should pass it as an object to that method. Otherwise you risk it getting released before the callParsing method is executed and thus causing the crash:

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[self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(callParsing:) withObject:urlString];
...

-(void)callParsing:(NSString*)urlString {
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