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Pippo
Pippo

Reputation: 1473

completion handler to finish tasks before running another

I'm really tying myself up in a knot here getting very confused with how to perform tasks in the order i want them to happen.

i have function to build an array from server data and return a result which is the array. - this works fine and does return the result.

upon the completion of this happening (twice) i want to run another function. for some reason at the moment i am trying to embed these functions in another function with a completion block that will return true once these 2 have completed and returned data, but the way I'm trying this its returning the result before the function has completed.

func getCollectionArrays(_ block: ((Bool) -> Void)? = nil) {

    var resultPack: Bool!
    var resultPart: Bool!

        BuildArray.buildArrayFromQuery(queryForCollection: "Pack", sender: self, completeBlock: { (result) in

            if result != nil {

                resultPack = true
            }

        })

                BuildArray.buildArrayFromQuery(queryForCollection: "Part", sender: self, completeBlock: { (result) in

                    if result != nil {

                        resultPart = true
                    }

                })

    // this is returning nil because there isn't enough time for "BuildArray.buildArrayFromQuery" to run
    if resultPack == true && resultPart == true {

        block!(true)

    }

}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 591

Answers (1)

matt
matt

Reputation: 535999

Move the next step into the preceding closure. Keep nesting. Like so:

func getCollectionArrays(_ block: ((Bool) -> Void)? = nil) {
    var resultPack: Bool!
    var resultPart: Bool!
    BuildArray.buildArrayFromQuery(queryForCollection: "Pack", sender: self, completeBlock: { (result) in
        if result != nil {
            resultPack = true
        }
        // next step, nested in this closure
        BuildArray.buildArrayFromQuery(queryForCollection: "Part", sender: self, completeBlock: { (result) in
            if result != nil {
                resultPart = true
            }
            // next step, nested in _this_ closure
            if resultPack == true && resultPart == true {
                block!(true)
            }
        })
    })
}

Upvotes: 2

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