I would like to use a finalize hook in iOS NSObjec...

# kotlin-native

[Paul Idstein]

I would like to use a finalize hook in iOS NSObject. How can I implement dealloc in Kotlin? I will as a final step call super.dealloc to dispose KRefSharedHolder, but before that I would like to clean-up scoped pointers

[olonho]

there's no way to do destructors in Kotlin/Native, although you could try your luck with Objective-C deinitializers

[Paul Idstein]

I know there’s no way to do it, within K/N, but I can’t see how dealloc is properly rendered into the NSObject via IR. Is that even possible or is the dealloc stripped / overwritten always by the K/N runtime?

[svyatoslav.scherbina]

You can’t override dealloc in Kotlin for now. Consider implementing special cleaner class in Objective-C and then importing it to Kotlin.

[louiscad]

@svyatoslav.scherbina I'm not familiar with Obj-C and interop with it apart from platform libs. Is there such an example for a library module?

[svyatoslav.scherbina]

Please refer to the documentation.