NSThread sleepfortimeinterval blocks main thread

Question

I want to simulate a communication with a server. As the remote server will have some delays I want to use a background thread that has on it

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Answer 1

Try create a method in your thread class called sleepThread

-(void)sleepThread
{
   [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:timeoutTillAnswer];
}

Then to make it sleep from your main thread

[self.botThread performSelector:@selector(sleepThread) onThread:self.botThread withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];

To send updated to your main thread from your bot thread.

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
    [MainClass somethinghasUpdated];
});

Side Note

To create the RunLoop I think all you need to do is

// Run the Current RunLoop
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] run];