OK to retain ASIHTTPRequest delegate?

Question

Is it OK to retain a delegate of a subclass of ASIHTTPRequest?

I made a subclass of ASIHTTPRequest called JSONRequest. Each instan

Answer 1

If your release is deterministic (if you promise it will always happen, even in the case of an error, a timeout, or some other sort of unexpected event - like the connection simply hanging indefinitely) - then this is fine (no retain loop).

In this case, the retain loop would always get broken at some point.