Android Question [SOLVED] How important is it to release a HttpJob?

[Sandman]

Let's say I have a resumable sub that waits for a HttpJob to finish. I dim the HttpJob in the sub.

Do I really need to release the HttpJob? Isn't that done automatically once the sub is finished?

 

[DonManfred]

Isn't that done automatically once the sub is finished?

no

Do I really need to release the HttpJob?

yes.
Note that it was true in the past too. Though the release were placed in the Jobdone Event. But it was needed too.

 

[Sandman]

So, looking at the past, the HttpJob isn't a strictly local variable, as it was fed into the jobdone sub. And just because we now can dim and consume it in the same resumable sub using Wait For doesn't make it a local variable? Because the Wait For construct is just a bit of Erel magic that is still compiled to something like the older jobdone sub? Something like that?

 

[Erel]

HttpJob.Release will not be executed unless you explicitly call it. It doesn't matter how you handle the JobDone event.

The purpose of HttpJob.Release is not to release the reference to the HttpJob object. It deletes the temporary file created while the resource was downloaded.

 

[Sandman]

Aha, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks.