reload tableView in last method run

Question

I have method that get notification as I download one image. I can download a lot of objects and I want to update tableView then I have last notification of downloaded image. How the best way to accomplish it?

- (void)requestDownloadAvatarWithImageString:(NSString *)imageString completion:(void (^)(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, UIImage *image, NSError *error))completion __attribute__((nonnull(2)))
{
NSParameterAssert(completion);

NSString *urlString = imageString;
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
NSURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

AFHTTPRequestOperation *requestOperation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:urlRequest];
requestOperation.responseSerializer = [AFImageResponseSerializer serializer];

[requestOperation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {

    completion(operation, responseObject, nil);

} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
    DDLogError(@"FAIL download image: %@",error);
}];

[requestOperation start];
}

Answer 1

dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0);

dispatch_semaphore_t semaphore = dispatch_semaphore_create(NUMBER_OF_RETURNED_OBJECTS);
dispatch_async(queue, ^{
    for (i = 0; i<NUMBER_OF_RETURNED_OBJECTS; i++)
    {
        dispatch_async(queue, ^{

            fetchObject(i); // it's specific to your application

            dispatch_semaphore_signal(semaphore);
        }
    }
    dispatch_semaphore_wait(semaphore, DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER);
}   

[your_table_view reloadData];

or simply get all image paths in an array then download them with SDWebImage

- (UITableViewCell *) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{

UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier];


NSString *url = [NSString stringWithString, imageArray[indexPath.row]];

[cell.cell_image setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString: url] placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"placeholder.png"]];

}