objective c - Wait for code to finish execution

Question

I would like to know the easiest way to wait for code to finish execution within an objective c project because I am calling a webservice and retrieving the results and instead it is retrieving the results before the webservice has finished being called and filled.

Any suggestions please?

Btw this is my webservice code:

    NSMutableURLRequest *theRequest=[NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:tmpURl];

[theRequest addValue:@"text/xml; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

[theRequest addValue:@"http://tempuri.org/GetCategory" forHTTPHeaderField:@"SOAPAction"];

NSString *msgLength=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",[soapMessage length]];

[theRequest addValue:msgLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];

[theRequest setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

[theRequest setHTTPBody:[soapMessage dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

NSURLConnection *conn=[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:theRequest delegate:self];

and the code I am using to call this method from the other class:

images = [ws callWebService:api :data];

        images = [ws returnArray];

now the problem is, that the second line is being executed before the first has finished

Answer 1

You do it easily as below,

-(void)aFunc {

Do Asynchronous A job...

while (A is not finished) {
// If A job is finished, a flag should be set. and the flag can be a exit condition of this while loop

// This executes another run loop.
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode beforeDate:[NSDate distantFuture]];

}

Do things using the A's result.

}