I am parsing Json Data into an NSDecimalNumber as follows
product.Price = NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberWithDecimal:jProduct
objectForKey:@"Price" decimalValue;
This is in a loop with each product being added to an array. At the end I release the json object.
If I Log the value of product.Price during the loop the value is correct. However later on the the application lifecycle I access a product in the array and bang, I get EXC_BAD_ACCESS.
is this some odd pointer issue back to the json data which is then being released? any ideas? It’s worth noting that the values of my NSIntegers and NSStrings are fine.
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You didn’t show all the relevant code, but my guess is that the definition of the Price property (which should start with a lower case letter, BTW) does not have the retain keyword. The result is that the autoreleased object from NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberWithDecimal:... simply gets autoreleased 🙂 And then your pointer is pointing to invalid memory.
The property should be declared similar to this:
@property(retain) NSDecimal *Price;
If the retain keyword is missing then only the pointer will be stored, but the property will not increase the retain count (tell the object: I’ll need you to stay around until I’m done with you).