Wait for assetForURL blocks to be completed

Question

I would like to wait this code to be executed before to continue but as these blocks are called assynchronously I don't know how to do???

NSURL *asseturl;
NSMutableArray *tmpListAsset = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

ALAssetsLibrary *library = [[[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init] autorelease];
NSMutableArray *objectsToRemove = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (NSDictionary *dico in assetsList) {
    asseturl = [NSURL URLWithString:[dico objectForKey:@"assetUrl"]];
    NSLog(@"asset url %@", asseturl);
    // Try to load asset at mediaURL
    [library assetForURL:asseturl resultBlock:^(ALAsset *asset) {
        // If asset doesn't exists
        if (!asset){
            [objectsToRemove addObject:dico];
        }else{
            [tmpListAsset addObject:[asseturl absoluteString]];
            NSLog(@"tmpListAsset : %@", tmpListAsset);
        }
    } failureBlock:^(NSError *error) {
        // Type your code here for failure (when user doesn't allow location in your app)
    }];
}

Answer 1

GCD semaphore approach:

dispatch_semaphore_t sema = dispatch_semaphore_create(0);
dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT,0);

for (NSURL *url in self.assetUrls) {
    dispatch_async(queue, ^{
        [library assetForURL:url resultBlock:^(ALAsset *asset) {
            [self.assets addObject:asset];
            dispatch_semaphore_signal(sema);
        } failureBlock:^(NSError *error) {
            dispatch_semaphore_signal(sema);
        }];
    });
    dispatch_semaphore_wait(sema, DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER);
}
dispatch_release(sema);

/* Check out ALAssets */
NSLog(@"%@", self.assets);