Destroying an object and doing some cleanup

I have an object that starts an activity and when I test I just throw away the object and I build a new one. But the code path never cleans up the session data from that activity. Do object have a DESTROY functionality where I can do sane destroying of an object?

class Foo {

  private var session;
  // More code here
  // and somewhere session.start() is called
  
  function DESTROY() {
     if (self.session != null) {
        self.session.stop();
        self.session.discard();
     }
     // More cleanup here
  }
}

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flowstate over 4 years ago in reply to _psx_ +1

_psx_ said:
after calling ses.DESTROY set ses=null and you recover memory

The idea is he wants Foo.DESTROY() to be called automatically when a Foo object is no longer referenced, as in Python destructo…
waterkip over 4 years ago in reply to flowstate +1

One doesn't mind to be referred to as "he", but "they" is fine to :)

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0 flowstate over 4 years ago

No, unfortunately not.

0 waterkip over 4 years ago in reply to flowstate

Meh. I worked around it by mocking the whole activity thing but meh. It means that if you popViews and what not, you also have to remember to destroy the object yourself..

0 _psx_ over 4 years ago in reply to waterkip

after calling ses.DESTROY set ses=null and you recover memory

0 flowstate over 4 years ago in reply to _psx_

_psx_ said:
after calling ses.DESTROY set ses=null and you recover memory

The idea is he wants Foo.DESTROY() to be called automatically when a Foo object is no longer referenced, as in Python destructors. C++ destructors are a similar concept (but not identical, since C++ has neither tracing nor reference counting garbage collection.)

e.g.

Foo f = new Foo();
// do a bunch of stuff with f
f = null; // want f.DESTROY() to be automatically called here

0 _psx_ over 4 years ago in reply to flowstate

but their is no destructor in monkey C, do solution is function

function DESTROY(o)

{

o.DESTROY();

o = null;

}

0 waterkip over 4 years ago in reply to flowstate

One doesn't mind to be referred to as "he", but "they" is fine to :)