1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m b/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m
index 9d9648ae28..5f7d74bca8 100644
--- a/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m
+++ b/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 #include <grpc/support/time.h>
 #import <RxLibrary/GRXConcurrentWriteable.h>
 
-#import "private/GRPCChannel.h"
 #import "private/GRPCWrappedCall.h"
 #import "private/NSData+GRPC.h"
 #import "private/NSDictionary+GRPC.h"
@@ -70,8 +69,6 @@ NSString * const kGRPCStatusMetadataKey = @"io.grpc.StatusMetadataKey";
   GRPCWrappedCall *_wrappedCall;
   dispatch_once_t _callAlreadyInvoked;
 
-  GRPCChannel *_channel;
-
   // The C gRPC library has less guarantees on the ordering of events than we
   // do. Particularly, in the face of errors, there's no ordering guarantee at
   // all. This wrapper over our actual writeable ensures thread-safety and
@@ -105,11 +102,10 @@ NSString * const kGRPCStatusMetadataKey = @"io.grpc.StatusMetadataKey";
                 format:@"The requests writer can't be already started."];
   }
   if ((self = [super init])) {
-    _channel = [GRPCChannel channelToHost:host];
-
-    _wrappedCall = [[GRPCWrappedCall alloc] initWithChannel:_channel
-                                                       path:path
-                                                       host:host];
+    _wrappedCall = [[GRPCWrappedCall alloc] initWithHost:host path:path];
+    if (!_wrappedCall) {
+      return nil;
+    }
 
     // Serial queue to invoke the non-reentrant methods of the grpc_call object.
     _callQueue = dispatch_queue_create("org.grpc.call", NULL);