By @travisjeffery.
TRVSURLSessionOperation
is an NSOperation
subclass that wraps NSURLSessionTask
so you can use them in a NSOperationQueue
.
With this you can:
- Schedule network requests (i.e. run request A then request B, and give requests priority)
- Limit the number of concurrent network requests (e.g. have 5 network requests running at any given time)
- Control these network operations the same as other
NSOperation
objects (e.g. you have anNSOperation
that creates an image, then anTRVSURLSessionOperation
that uploads that image to a web service)
NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:[NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration]];
[queue addOperation:[[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"https://twitter.com/travisjeffery"] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }]];
For example, you have an initial request to log a user in or fetch their settings, and you want subsequent requests to wait for that initial request to finish and then they run.
NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:[NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration]];
TRVSURLSessionOperation *settingsOperation = [[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"..."] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }];
TRVSURLSessionOperation *anotherOperation = [[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"..."] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }];
// get some settings for your app from your server, and queue subsequent requests that depend on those settings.
[anotherOperation addDependency:settingsOperation];
[queue addOperations:@[ loginOperation, settingsOperation ] waitUntilAllOperationsAreFinished:NO];
NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperation alloc] init];
queue.suspended = YES;
// these request/operations won't run
[queue addOperation:[[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"https://twitter.com/travisjeffery"] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }]];
[queue addOperation:[[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"https://github.com/travisjeffery"] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }]];
queue.suspended = NO;
// until now
NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
queue.maxConcurrentOperationCount = 1; // only one request will run at once
NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:[NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration]];
[queue addOperation:[[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"https://twitter.com/travisjeffery"] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }]];
[queue addOperation:[[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"https://github.com/travisjeffery"] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }]];
NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:[NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration]];
[queue addOperation:[[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"https://twitter.com/travisjeffery"] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }]];
[queue addOperation:[[TRVSURLSessionOperation alloc] initWithSession:session request:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:@"https://github.com/travisjeffery"] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { ... }]];
[queue waitUntilAllOperationsAreFinished];
NSLog(@"All requests are done!");
Use Cocoapods, and put the following in your Podfile:
pod `TRVSURLSessionOperation`, '~> 0.0.1'
Or manually drag the TRVSURLSessionOperation folder into your Xcode project.