(Swift 2) Async Progress Info Log

Demonstrates checking for progress info updates when running a task asynchronously.

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func chilkatTest() {
    // All Chilkat classes can be unlocked at once at the beginning of a program
    // by calling UnlockBundle.  It requires a Bundle unlock code.
    let chilkatGlob = CkoGlobal()
    var success: Bool = chilkatGlob.UnlockBundle("Anything for 30-day trial.")
    if success != true {
        print("\(chilkatGlob.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

    // The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
    let mailman = CkoMailMan()

    // Set the SMTP server and any required settings.
    mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.mymailserver.com"
    mailman.SmtpUsername = "myLogin"
    mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"
    mailman.StartTLS = true

    // Create a new email object
    let email = CkoEmail()

    email.Subject = "This is a test"
    email.Body = "This is a test"
    email.From = "Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>"
    success = email.AddTo("Chilkat Admin", emailAddress: "admin@chilkatsoft.com")

    // Call the async version of the SendEmail method to return a task object.
    // The task object is loaded, but is in the Inert state -- meaning it is
    // not yet scheduled to run on Chilkat's background thread pool.
    var task: CkoTask? = mailman.SendEmailAsync(email)
    if mailman.LastMethodSuccess == false {
        print("\(mailman.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

    // Before starting the task, tell it to keep an in-memory log of what would've been
    // ProgressInfo event callbacks.
    task.KeepProgressLog = true

    // Schedule the task for running on the thread pool.  This changes the task's state
    // from Inert to Live.
    success = task!.Run()
    if success != true {
        print("\(task!.LastErrorText)")
        task = nil
        return
    }

    // The application is now free to do anything else
    // while the email is being sent.

    // For this example, we'll simply sleep and periodically
    // check to see if the SendEmail if finished.  While checking
    // however, we'll report on the progress.
    var curPctDone: Int = 0
    var name: String?
    var value: String?

    while task!.Finished != true {

        if task!.PercentDone.intValue != curPctDone {
            curPctDone = task!.PercentDone.intValue
            print("\(curPctDone) percent done")
        }

        // Check the progress info log.
        // Emit any log entries..
        while (task!.ProgressLogSize.intValue > 0) {
            // Get the 1st entry, emit it, and then remove it..
            name = task!.ProgressInfoName(0)
            value = task!.ProgressInfoValue(0)
            print("\(name!): \(value!)")
            task!.RemoveProgressInfo(0)
        }

        // Sleep 100 ms.
        task!.SleepMs(100)

    }

    // Just in case there are any remaining entries...
    while (task!.ProgressLogSize.intValue > 0) {
        // Get the 1st entry, emit it, and then remove it..
        name = task!.ProgressInfoName(0)
        value = task!.ProgressInfoValue(0)
        print("\(name!): \(value!)")
        task!.RemoveProgressInfo(0)
    }

    // A finished task could be one that was canceled, aborted, or truly finished.  

    // If the task was "canceled", it was canceled prior to actually starting.  This could
    // happen if the task was canceled while waiting in a thread pool queue to be scheduled by Chilkat's
    // background thread pool scheduler.  

    // If the task was "aborted", it indicates that it was canceled while running in a background thread.  
    // The ResultErrorText will likely indicate that the task was aborted.

    // If the task "completed", then it ran to completion, but the actual success/failure of the method
    // is determined by the result obtained via a GetResult* method.  (A "completed" task will
    // have a StatusInt equal to 7.   If the task finished, but was not completed, then it must've
    // been aborted or canceled:
    if task!.StatusInt.intValue != 7 {
        print("Task did not complete.")
        print("task status: \(task!.Status)")
        task = nil
        return
    }

    // The SendEmail method returns a boolean.  Therefore, after the task is finished,
    // we can get the boolean result by calling GetResultBool.  This is the return value had
    // we called SendEmail synchronously.
    success = task!.GetResultBool()
    if success != true {
        // The task's ResultErrorText contains what would have been in the LastErrorText property had
        // the SendEmail method been called synchronously.
        print("\(task!.ResultErrorText)")
    }
    else {
        print("Email sent asynchronously.")
    }

    task = nil

    success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
    if success != true {
        print("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.")

    }


}