Tutorial :NSDate assign problem

Question:

I would like to assign a date from one view controller to another

-(void) setCurrentDate:(NSDate newDate){      self.currentDate = newDate;      [self updateView];  }

While debugging I see the currentDate value out of scope and the application crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS.

Any help will be appreciated.

Solution:1

You need to pass the pointer to date. Something like this:

-(void) setCurrentDate:(NSDate* newDate){      [self.currentDate release];      self.currentDate = newDate;      [self.currentDate retain];      [self updateView];  }

Of course, your currentDate class variable should also be a NSDate pointer. It will be even better if you use a property instead of a custom made setter.

Solution:2

Besides that your setter should take NSDate by pointer (all class-type instances are passed by pointer in Objective-C), you are recursively calling the setter:
self.currentDate = foo results in [self setCurrentDate:foo] being called.

Correctly it should look e.g. like this (assuming a nonatomic, retain property):

- (void)setCurrentDate:(NSDate *)newDate {      if (currentDate != newDate) {          [currentDate release];          [newDate retain];          currentDate = newDate;          [self updateView];      }  }

Alternatively name that method different from the setter so you can use the synthesized setter:

- (void)updateDate:(NSDate *)newDate {      self.currentDate = newDate;      [self updateView];  }

Solution:3

Possibly, you need to retain newDate or copy it, if it's possible.

What I mean:

You create newDate
You call setCurrentDate
You release newDate
[self updateView] try to use it and fails because it is already released.

You also can try NSZombieEnabled to catch this kind of bugs.

Solution:4

In your method name, you use (NSDate date). You forgot to include the "*", which makes it a pointer. The correct code should be

-(void) setCurrentDate:(NSDate *newDate){ // Notice the star after NSDate    Â  Â  self.currentDate = newDate;  Â  Â  [self updateView];    }

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