swift3 - DispatchGroup: check how many "entered"

Question

I'm using Swift 3 DispatchGroup to wait until multiple async operations are finished (according to this answer which works perfect and as expected.

Is there a way to check how many operations are entered already, like dispatchGroup.count or something like that?

Answer 1

You can see counts of enters to the group in debug description:

OS_dispatch_group: group[0x60000221d950] = { xref = 3, ref = 3, count = 2, gen = 0, waiters = 0, notifs = 1 }

and extract int value out of it:

let count = dispatchGroup.debugDescription.components(separatedBy: ",").filter({$0.contains("count")}).first?.components(separatedBy: CharacterSet.decimalDigits.inverted).compactMap{Int($0)}.first