What I am trying to do is a Facebook wrapper for the Facebook iOS SDK. Basically the idea is that my ViewController should do nothing but showing ex. my friends that will be acquired with a simple call like
self.friends = [FacebookWrapper myFriends];
[self.tableView reloadData];
My wrapper myFriends method should look like this
+ (NSArray *)myFriends
{
__block NSArray *friends = nil;
[FBSession openActiveSessionWithReadPermissions:nil allowLoginUI:YES completionHandler:^(FBSession *session, FBSessionState status, NSError *error) {
if(FB_ISSESSIONOPENWITHSTATE(status)) {
[FBRequestConnection startForMyFriendsWithCompletionHandler:^(FBRequestConnection *connection, id data, NSError *error) {
CFRunLoopStop(CFRunLoopGetCurrent());
if(error) {
return;
}
NSArray *friendsData = (NSArray *)[data data];
NSMutableArray *fbFriends = [NSMutableArray array];
for(id friendData in friendsData) {
Friend *friend = [Friend friendWithDictionary:friendData];
fbFriends addObject:friend];
}
friends = [NSArray arrayWithArray:fbFriends];
}];
CFRunLoopRun();
}
}];
return friends;
}
The issue is that the openActiveSessionWithReadPermissions and startForMyFriendsWithCompletionHandler are asynchronous blocks so the method returns before the blocks complete their task.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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