i am struggeling with a issue as following:
i start some network processing inside a async function:
func upload(
object: object,
context: NSManagedObjectContext
) async -> Dictionary<String,String> {
}
therefor to inform the user that a time consuming process has just been started i display a alert controller:
let alert = UIAlertController(
title: "Loading",
message: "Please wait...",
preferredStyle: .alert
)
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
at the end of that function if everything worked out as planed i do dismiss that alert controller successfully, and show another alert:
alert.dismiss(
animated: true,
completion: {
let messageAlert = UIAlertController(
title: "Success",
message: "Upload complete",
preferredStyle: .alert
)
messageAlert.addAction(
UIAlertAction(
title: "OK",
style: .default,
handler: { (action: UIAlertAction) in
//
}
)
)
self.present(
messageAlert, animated: true, completion: nil
)
}
)
but i also want to dismiss that alert and show a new one when an error occured, but the first alert controller never gets dismissed:
guard dataString.replacingOccurrences(
of: "\n",
with: ""
) != "no valid userID" else {
error = true
alert.dismiss(
animated: true,
completion: {
let messageAlert = UIAlertController(
title: "Warning",
message: "no valid userID received",
preferredStyle: .alert
)
messageAlert.addAction(
UIAlertAction(
title: "OK",
style: .default,
handler: { (action: UIAlertAction) in
//
}
)
)
self.present(
messageAlert,
animated: true,
completion: nil
)
}
)
returnDic = [
"result": "error",
"info": "no valid userID received"
]
return returnDic
}
i just can't wrap my head around why i am able to close it at the end of that function but not somewhere down the road.. Xcode is also complaining about not being able to present a new alert if one is actually being displayed right now..
[Presentation] Attempt to present <UIAlertController: 0x15880a200> on
<Project.ContainerViewController: 0x153708290> (
from <Project.LockerViewController: 0x155018200>)
while a presentation is in progress.
i already tried to work with an observer like:
var error = Bool() {
didSet {
alert.dismiss(animated: true)
}
}
it gets called, but the view does not get dismissed again :/
any ideas?
i've found a solution: The problem was that the presenting of that alert controller has not finished yet, and so it could not be dismissed at that time.
a fix for this is f.e.:
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1) {
alert.dismiss(animated: true)
}
i've realized this with attaching a closure block to
self.present(alert,animated: true) { print("alert controller is visible") }
and at the time of dimissal that text has not been printed out yet ;)
i hope this is usefull for somebody else as well ;)