Retain/release pattern for UIPopoverController, UIActionSheet, and modal view controllers?

Question

I'm somewhat unclear on the object ownership patterns required for the following instances. When my UIViewController presents a popover controller, an action sheet, or another view controller as modal, am I required to hang onto a retained reference to that child controller until it's been dismissed?

In other words, do the following lines of code effectively "transfer" ownership, or not?

[aPopoverController presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem:someButtonItem permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:NO];

[anActionSheet showFromBarButtonItem:someButtonItem animated:NO];

[aViewController presentModalViewController:someOtherViewController animated:YES];

Can someone point me to explicit documentation on this subject?

Answer 1

UIPopoverViewController has a slight different memory management/owning. Present a popover does not retain the memory, so you can't transfer the ownership of your popviewcontroller to the presenting object.

To avoid memory leak, you have to adopt the UIPopoverControllerDelegate and implement the DidDismissPopOver method as follow:

- (void)popoverControllerDidDismissPopover:(UIPopoverController *)popoverController {
    [popoverController release];
}

This way, you can safe alloc and present a PopOver:

-(void)showSearch:(id)sender {
    SearchViewController *searchVC = [[SearchViewController alloc] init];
    UIPopoverController *popVC = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:searchVC];
    popVC.delegate = self;
    [popVC setPopoverContentSize:CGSizeMake(320, 100)];
    [popVC presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake(200, 200, 320, 100) inView:self.view permittedArrowDirections:0 animated:YES];
    [searchVC release];
}