Just to come back around on this, I ended up using the dispatch_suspend and dispatch_resume method. I had previously explored that but I moved the suspend and resume closer to the network call to make the whole thing simpler. I tried using dispatch_group_enter and dispatch_group_leave but that did not do the same thing.
The idea of a queue of messages to send was something I explored quite a long time ago but I found that it tended to make my code more complex than simpler so I had abandoned that idea. > On Jun 28, 2016, at 11:50 PM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: > > Smarter people that we are have already spent the time to figure it out. > Learn the way they did it and profit from their work and experience. > > There is a benefit to learning how to create the wheel. That time is not > now. Learn the wheel that we have. > > > On Jun 28, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Peter Tomaselli wrote: > >> I have not a lot of Cocoa experience here, so I am legitimately asking this >> question, no snark intended: what’s the advantage to building a home-made >> “serial” “queue” as opposed to just using an actual serial operation queue? >> Haven’t you just described the first few steps one would take were one to >> set out to reimplement NSOperationQueue? >> >> FWIW (and as I mentioned, I am an eminently ignorable person when it comes >> to Cocoa expertise), I sort of see the essence of the “async” flavor of >> NSOperation as being to provide definitive signaling when an otherwise >> asynchronous operation is really “finished“ — for whatever business >> definition of “finished” one requires. So I don’t completely agree that this >> would be “shoehorning”; seems right on the money to me. >> >> Just one opinion! Cheers, >> >> Peter >> >> On Jun 28, 2016, at 6:50 PM, "Gary L. Wade" <garyw...@desisoftsystems.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Based on his desire to do this serially, he would need a serial queue, and >>> he's using asynchronous requests, so succeeding calls from his completion >>> handler with a simple array in queue pattern is simpler than shoehorning it >>> all into dispatch queues. >>> -- >>> Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone) >>> http://www.garywade.com/ >>> >>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Would a dispatch queue get what he's looking for? >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jim.adams%40sas.com > > This email sent to jim.ad...@sas.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
