DispatchGroup convenience wrapper for executing a series of blocks concurrently

DispatchGroup+Complete.swift

import Foundation

extension DispatchGroup {
    
    /// Completes a series of blocks and finally executes a completion handler.
    ///
    /// - Parameters:
    ///   - label: An optional DispatchQueue label (defaults to bg)
    ///   - qos: An optional DipatchQos (defaults to background)
    ///   - blocks: The series of blocks to call.
    ///   - completion: The final completion handler when all blocks are
    ///     finished.
    ///
    /// Ensure you call the completion handler in every block.
    func complete(
        label: String = "bg",
        qos: DispatchQoS = .background,
        _ blocks: ((() -> Void) -> Void)...,
        completion:  @escaping () -> Void) {
        
        for block in blocks {
            
            self.enter()
            
            DispatchQueue(
                label: label,
                qos: qos).async {
                    
                block({
                    self.leave()
                })
            }
            
        }
        
        self.notify(queue: .main) {
            completion()
        }
        
    }
    
}

// MARK: - Example

DispatchGroup().complete(
    { completion in sleep(1); print("execution 1"); completion() },
    { completion in print("execution 2"); completion() },
    { completion in print("execution 3"); completion() }
) {
    print("end of group completion handler")
}

Hi Gargo, I recommend using structured concurrency if you are trying to do this in the future. This code is quite old and I wouldn't use it now.

@plummer I still don't understand how structured concurrency works. I have recently read that Task { Task { ... } } is not equal to DispatchQueue.global().async { DispatchQueue.global().async { ... } } and it confuses me.