How to make async / await in Swift?

Question

I would like to simulate async and await request from Javascript to Swift 4. I searched a lot on how to do it, and I thought I found the answer with DispatchQueue

Answer 1

You can use semaphores to simulate async/await.

func makeAPICall() -> Result  {
            let path = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1"
            guard let url = URL(string: path) else {
                return .failure(.url)
            }
            var result: Result !
            
            let semaphore = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)
            URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { (data, _, _) in
                if let data = data {
                    result = .success(String(data: data, encoding: .utf8))
                } else {
                    result = .failure(.server)
                }
                semaphore.signal()
            }.resume()
            _ = semaphore.wait(wallTimeout: .distantFuture)
            return result
 }

And here is example how it works with consecutive API calls:

func load() {
        DispatchQueue.global(qos: .utility).async {
           let result = self.makeAPICall()
                .flatMap { self.anotherAPICall($0) }
                .flatMap { self.andAnotherAPICall($0) }
            
            DispatchQueue.main.async {
                switch result {
                case let .success(data):
                    print(data)
                case let .failure(error):
                    print(error)
                }
            }
        }
    }

Here is the article describing it in details.

And you can also use promises with PromiseKit and similar libraries