Hello,
I have a long-standing doubt that I have been solving without knowing if tihs is the right way to do it. So I’d like a suggestion.
I have a TFile with many nested TDirectory’s inside. I am interested in the most bottom one’s which are called “module_*” . What I am using to navigate and be able to collect all the TDirecory’s I am interested in is a function that I call iteratively and takes the TKey of a directory as input. You can find a simplified example in the attachment.
What I am sure is correct is to “delete” all the objects I get with TKey::ReadObj() once I know they are not a TDirectory and therefore are not needed to continue the navigation. If I do not do that I continue to fill the memory with objects I do not need and this effect is clear when I quit the root session: it takes ages to quit.
What I don’t know if it has to be done or not is to delete the objects when they are TDirectory’s once I do not need them anymore (for example because I have finished to navigate below it). In the attached example the two possible statements are indicated with an arrow. My experience is that if I include this “delete” statements, then I have problems (crashes) if I have to access the file later on using the TKey’s of the directories I am interested in (the navigation is used to create a list of TKey*'s of those TDirectory’s), while if I do not delete them I have no problem. So, presently, I am not deleting them but I’d like to know if this is the expected behaviour: does “delete” behaves differently if the object I get from TKey::ReadObj() is a TDirectory or not?
Thanks in advance
regards
Andrea
test_navigator.C (1.46 KB)