[swift-users] Migrating to Swift 3 Dispatch

[Thierry Passeron]

Hello All,

I’m in the process of migrating older code to Swift 3 and I’m stuck on this one.
How do you create a timer dispatch source?

Old code:

let source = dispatch_source_create(DISPATCH_SOURCE_TYPE_TIMER, 0, 0, queue)

dispatch_source_set_timer(source, dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, 0), UInt64(interval * 1000_000_000), 0)
dispatch_source_set_event_handler(source) {
   // Do something useful
 }

 dispatch_resume(source)

New code:
???

Xcode is not helping me with any of the required refactoring. The convert tool throws many errors but no proposition.
I have tried to explore the New Dispatch headers with no luck. DISPATCH_SOURCE_TYPE_TIMER can’t be found… ok so It seems to be replaced with a protocol DispatchSourceTimer and … no initializer… I think I don’t yet catch with the whole philosophy of this new version. 

I’d be pleased if anyone cared to enlighten me.

Thanks and regards,
Thierry