How do I start an Asynchronous NSURLConnection inside an NSOperation?

Question

I want to do an Asynchrous NSURLConnection inside of an NSOperation on a background thread. it is because I\'m doing some very expensive operations on the data as they come

Answer 1

-(void)start
{
  [self willChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];
  _isExecuting = YES;
  [self didChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];
  NSURL* url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:@"http://url.to/feed.xml"];
  NSMutableURLRequest* request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:20];
  _connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self startImmediately:NO]; // ivar
  [request release];
  [url release];
  // Here is the trick
  NSPort* port = [NSPort port];
  NSRunLoop* rl = [NSRunLoop currentRunLoop]; // Get the runloop
  [rl addPort:port forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
  [_connection scheduleInRunLoop:rl forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
  [_connection start];
  [rl run];
}

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