How to know all concurrent NSOperations are completed

Question

My situation is:

• I have users
• Each user has some history data that can be fetched via user objects

What I want to do is:

• Max 2 users must be fetching their history data at the same time (this is the reason that I want to use NSOperationQueue)
• I need to get notified when any user finished fetching its history data
• I need to get notified when every user finished fetching their history data

What I ask is:

• How can I achieve what I want to do since I can't make it thru with the code below?

Any help is appreciated.

    NSOperationQueue *operationQueue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
    [operationQueue setMaxConcurrentOperationCount:2];

    for (User *user in users) {
        NSBlockOperation *operationObject = [NSBlockOperation blockOperationWithBlock:^{
            [user loadHistoryData:^{
                [NSNotificationCenter postNotificationToMainThread:@"oneUserFetchedHistory"];
            }];
        }];

        [operationQueue addOperation:operationObject];
    }

This question differs from this question because I don't want to chain any requests. I just want to know when they are all finished executing.

This answer has a completion block for only one operation queue.

This answer offers a way to make operation block to wait until async call to loadHistoryData is completed. As writing setSuspended

I could not find an answer for my need. Is there any?

Answer 1

I've used AsyncBlockOperation and NSOperationQueue+CompletionBlock

Combining them is working for me like this:

  NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
  [queue setMaxConcurrentOperationCount:1]; 
  // 1 is serial, more is concurrent

  queue.completionBlock = ^{
    [NSNotificationCenter postNotificationToMainThread:@"allUsersFetchedHistory"];
  };

  for (User *user in users){
   [queue addOperationWithAsyncBlock:^(AsyncBlockOperation *op) {
     [user loadHistoryData:^{
       [op complete];
       [NSNotificationCenter postNotificationToMainThread:@"oneUserFetchedHistory"];
      }];
    }];
  }