dispatch_once after the Swift 3 GCD API changes

Question

What is the new syntax for dispatch_once in Swift after the changes made in language version 3? The old version was as follows.

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Answer 1

Swift 3: For those who likes reusable classes (or structures):

public final class /* struct */ DispatchOnce {
   private var lock: OSSpinLock = OS_SPINLOCK_INIT
   private var isInitialized = false
   public /* mutating */ func perform(block: (Void) -> Void) {
      OSSpinLockLock(&lock)
      if !isInitialized {
         block()
         isInitialized = true
      }
      OSSpinLockUnlock(&lock)
   }
}

Usage:

class MyViewController: UIViewController {

   private let /* var */ setUpOnce = DispatchOnce()

   override func viewWillAppear() {
      super.viewWillAppear()
      setUpOnce.perform {
         // Do some work here
         // ...
      }
   }

}

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Update (28 April 2017): OSSpinLock replaced with os_unfair_lock due deprecation warnings in macOS SDK 10.12.

public final class /* struct */ DispatchOnce {
   private var lock = os_unfair_lock()
   private var isInitialized = false
   public /* mutating */ func perform(block: (Void) -> Void) {
      os_unfair_lock_lock(&lock)
      if !isInitialized {
         block()
         isInitialized = true
      }
      os_unfair_lock_unlock(&lock)
   }
}