NSThread number on iOS? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I went ahead and wrote out @xlc's suggestion, just because:

@implementation NSThread (ThreadGetIndex)

-(NSInteger)getThreadNum
{
    NSString * description = [ self description ] ;
    NSArray * keyValuePairs = [ description componentsSeparatedByString:@"," ] ;
    for( NSString * keyValuePair in keyValuePairs )
    {
        NSArray * components = [ keyValuePair componentsSeparatedByString:@"=" ] ;
        NSString * key = components[0] ;
        key = [ key stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[ NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet ] ] ;
        if ( [ key isEqualToString:@"num" ] )
        {
            return [ components[1] integerValue ] ;
        }
    }
    @throw @"couldn't get thread num";
    return -1 ;
}

@end

This answers the question of getting "num" from the thread--although the question linked as a dupe might be helpful for the general question of uniquely identifying threads.

(The answer I like there is "generate a UUID and put in in the thread's thread dictionary.)