Cancel a timed event in Swift?

Question

I want to run a block of code in 10 seconds from an event, but I want to be able to cancel it so that if something happens before those 10 seconds, the code won\'t run after

Answer 1

Swift 3 has DispatchWorkItem:

let task = DispatchWorkItem { print("do something") }

// execute task in 2 seconds
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: DispatchTime.now() + 2, execute: task)

// optional: cancel task
task.cancel()