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Mo Al Waili
Mo Al Waili

Reputation: 180

openParentApplication only works when the app is running in the foreground

I'm trying to request data from the server by using openParentApplication and use it in the watch extension, but I don't get anything back when the main app is not running in the foreground. When the main app is running in the foreground everything works fine.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1086

Answers (2)

Brian Trzupek
Brian Trzupek

Reputation: 5390

Just adding some Obj-c equivalent that does this, although mine is using straight GCD so it is a slightly different approach.

 __block UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier identifier = UIBackgroundTaskInvalid;
dispatch_block_t endBlock = ^ {
    if (identifier != UIBackgroundTaskInvalid) {
        [application endBackgroundTask:identifier];
    }
    identifier = UIBackgroundTaskInvalid;
};
identifier = [application beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler:endBlock];

reply = ^(NSDictionary *replyInfo) {
    reply(replyInfo);
    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(2 * NSEC_PER_SEC)), dispatch_get_global_queue(0, 0), ^{
        endBlock();
    });
};

Upvotes: 2

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 25459

I had this issue before and the reason was that you haven't registered long running background operation and the system kill it. This is how I sorted this, please see comments for explanations, this is all in AppDelegate file and it in swift but you can easily port it to Objective-c:

private var backgroundTask: UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier = UIBackgroundTaskInvalid

func registerBackgroundTask() {
        backgroundTask = UIApplication.sharedApplication().beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler {
            [unowned self] in
            self.endBackgroundTask()
        }
        assert(backgroundTask != UIBackgroundTaskInvalid)
    }

func endBackgroundTask() {
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().endBackgroundTask(backgroundTask)
    backgroundTask = UIBackgroundTaskInvalid
}

// MARK: - Watch Kit
func application(application: UIApplication, handleWatchKitExtensionRequest userInfo: [NSObject : AnyObject]?, reply: (([NSObject : AnyObject]!) -> Void)!) {

    registerBackgroundTask()

    // Fetch the data from the network here
    // In the competition handler you need to call:
    // the nil can be replaced with something else you want to pass back to the watch kit
    reply(nil)
    if self.backgroundTask != UIBackgroundTaskInvalid {
        self.endBackgroundTask()
    }
}

Upvotes: 10

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