How to cancel NSBlockOperation

Question

I have a long running loop I want to run in the background with an NSOperation. I\'d like to use a block:

NSBlockOperation *operation = [NSBlock         


        

Answer 1

To reinforce jemmons answer. WWDC 2012 session 211 - Building Concurent User Interfaces (33 mins in)

NSOperationQueue* myQueue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
NSBlockOperation* myOp = [[NSBlockOperation alloc] init];

// Make a weak reference to avoid a retain cycle
__weak NSBlockOperation* myWeakOp = myOp;

[myOp addExecutionBlock:^{
    for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
        if ([myWeakOp isCancelled]) break;
        precessData(i);
    }
}];
[myQueue addOperation:myOp];