So I'm posting an array of images to my server. I want to use GCD to post the array asynchronously, but I also want to make the method in which this happens synchronous so that I can pass back a single response object. However the method dispatch_group_wait seems to be returning immediately (and not waiting for my blocks to finish). Is this an issue because I'm using a block within a block?
NSArray *keys = [images allKeys];
__block NSMutableDictionary *responses = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:[images count]];
dispatch_group_t group = dispatch_group_create();
dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0);
for (int i = 0; i < [keys count]; i++) {
__block NSString *key = [keys objectAtIndex:i];
dispatch_group_async(group, queue, ^{
[self postImage:[images objectForKey:key] completionHandler:^(ServerResponse *response){
@synchronized(responses){
if ([response succeeded]) {
NSString *value = [[response data] objectForKey:@"image_token"];
[responses setObject:value forKey:key];
NSLog(@"inside success %@",responses);
} else {
NSString *error = response.displayableError;
if (!error) {
error = @"Sorry something went wrong, please try again later.";
}
[responses setObject:error forKey:@"error"];
[responses setObject:response forKey:@"response"];
}
}
}];
});
}
dispatch_group_wait(group, DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER);
dispatch_release(group);
I want to simply wait for all of the [self postImage] methods to callback from the server and modify the responses dictionary.