Wait until all iOS blocks are executed before moving on

Question

I have a data model/store object that interfaces with the Internet over several APIs containing data. The number of APIs to be interfaced with is dynamic: from a conceptual stan

Answer 1

I played around with dispatch groups the other day, here is a really helpful blog post by jrturton which should help you with the basics!

But basically it looks like your missing the line to enter/leave the dispatch group. So non of your runAPI methods are being run as you have no items in the group and [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"apiDataUpdated" object:self]; gets called straight away.

dispatch_group_t group = dispatch_group_create();

for(MyAPIEndpoint __weak __block *ep in apiList)
{
    dispatch_group_enter(group);
    [self runAPI:ep withCompletionBlock:^(MyAPIEndpoint *api, NSError *err)
    {
        // update the data model here, code omitted as it's not relevant
        dispatch_group_leave(group);
    }];
}
});

dispatch_group_notify(group, dispatch_get_main_queue(),^{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"apiDataUpdated" object:self];
});