iOS Concurrency with GCD & Operations

Sep 12 2023 · Swift 5.8, macOS 13, iOS 16, Xcode 14.3

Part 3: Operations & OperationQueues

20. Dependencies

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In Part 1, you set up a simple dependency to update the UI after a background task finishes, using the notify method of DispatchWorkItem.

backgroundWorkItem.notify(
  queue: DispatchQueue.global(),
  execute: updateUIWorkItem)
userQueue.async(execute: backgroundWorkItem)
let downloadOp = NetworkImageOperation(url: urls[indexPath.row])
let tiltShiftOp = TiltShiftOperation()
tiltShiftOp.addDependency(downloadOp)
import UIKit

protocol ImageDataProvider {
  var image: UIImage? { get }
}
extension NetworkImageOperation: ImageDataProvider {}
extension TiltShiftOperation: ImageDataProvider {
  var image: UIImage? { return outputImage }
}
let dependencyImage = dependencies
  .compactMap { ($0 as? ImageDataProvider)?.image }
  .first
guard let inputImage = inputImage ?? dependencyImage 
else { return }
init(image: UIImage? = nil) {