So I am using fabric plugin/Twitter-kit to use twitter api in my application. I want to get the image URL of profile picture of a celebrity. here is my code below.
You need to return from an @escaping closure. Change the function
func getImageURL(celebrity: String) -> String {
}
to
func getImageURL(celebrity: String, completion: @escaping(String)->()) {
// your code
completion(imgURL)
}
You can use it as given below
getImageURL(celebrity: String) { (imgURL) in
self.imgURL = imgURL // Using self as the closure is running in background
}
Here is an example how I write multiple methods with closures for completion.
class ServiceManager: NSObject {
// Static Instance variable for Singleton
static var sharedSessionManager = ServiceManager()
// Function to execute GET request and pass data from escaping closure
func executeGetRequest(with urlString: String, completion: @escaping (Data?) -> ()) {
let url = URL.init(string: urlString)
let urlRequest = URLRequest(url: url!)
URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: urlRequest) { (data, response, error) in
// Log errors (if any)
if error != nil {
print(error.debugDescription)
} else {
// Passing the data from closure to the calling method
completion(data)
}
}.resume() // Starting the dataTask
}
// Function to perform a task - Calls executeGetRequest(with urlString:) and receives data from the closure.
func downloadMovies(from urlString: String, completion: @escaping ([Movie]) -> ()) {
// Calling executeGetRequest(with:)
executeGetRequest(with: urlString) { (data) in // Data received from closure
do {
// JSON parsing
let responseDict = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .allowFragments) as? [String: Any]
if let results = responseDict!["results"] as? [[String:Any]] {
var movies = [Movie]()
for obj in results {
let movie = Movie(movieDict: obj)
movies.append(movie)
}
// Passing parsed JSON data from closure to the calling method.
completion(movies)
}
} catch {
print("ERROR: could not retrieve response")
}
}
}
}
Below is the example how I use it to pass values.
ServiceManager.sharedSessionManager.downloadMovies(from: urlBase) { (movies : [Movie]) in // Object received from closure
self.movies = movies
DispatchQueue.main.async {
// Updating UI on main queue
self.movieCollectionView.reloadData()
}
}
I hope this helps anybody looking for the same solution.
You are correct, sendTwitterRequest
will return after your function has already returned, so there is no way for the outer function to return an imageURL.
Instead, in the closure, take the return value that you want in the cell and store it somewhere (in a member variable) and have the tableView update it itself (e.g. with tableView.reloadData()
).
This will cause it to get the cell again (cellForRow ...). Change the implementation to use the member variable where you stored the value from the call.