[swift-users] GCD : Getting current dispatch queue name with swift 3

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> I'm migrating one of my project to Swift 3 (xcode 8 beat release).
> Most of the changes were pretty strait-forward, but I have one required change that is still blocking me :
> In my code, I retrieve the current dispatch  queue name using that code :
> 
> let queueName = dispatch_queue_get_label(DISPATCH_CURRENT_QUEUE_LABEL)
> 
> DispatchQueue objects do have a label attribute, but I cannot find how to get the current dispatch queue.
> What would be the equivalent of it in swift 3 ?
> 
> Any idea would be very welcome :-).

Here's a horrible workaround:

	extension DispatchQueue {
		class var currentLabel: String {
			return String(validatingUTF8: __dispatch_queue_get_label(nil)) 
		}
	}

But I think this is a hole in the current design. I'm not sure if it's an *intentional* hole or not; the concept of a "current queue" in general is a bit squirrelly.

You should probably file a radar explaining what you want to do with this call.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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