Classes deleting Variables? iPhone SDK

Question

I have been having some problems with some variables inside a class being deleted lately. Here is how I declare:

MyClass *myClass;
-(void)viewDidLoad {
myClass = [MyClass new];
//something using my class

then when I call a function later that uses an array and a dictionary inside the class.

[myClass doSomething];

Here is the code I get in the console.

-[CFArray objectAtIndex:]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x5d1f370

Here is how I declare the area in the Class

NSArray *myArray;
-(void)doSomething{
myArray = [NSArray array];

Then later I just perform a valid objectAtIndex on the array. Someone please help me.

Answer 1

Looks like you aren't retaining the objects, so by the time you actually use them they are deallocated, since they are auto-released. Either use synthesized properties or add a retain message to each initialization, i.e., [[NSArray array] retain] and [[MyClass new] retain], be sure to release when appropriate. I recommend using properties instead though, it's cleaner.

EDIT: Thanks to imaginaryboy: the [NSArray array] call releases an autoreleased object, so you have to retain that, by changing it to [NSArray new] for example. Leave [MyClass new] as it already returns a retained object.