Subclassing NSOperation to be concurrent and cancellable

Question

Hello,

I am unable to find a good doc about how to subclass NSOperation to be concurrent and also to support cancellation.

I read the apple's doc, but I am unable to find an "official" exemple.

Here is my source code :

@synthesize isExecuting = _isExecuting;
@synthesize isFinished = _isFinished;
@synthesize isCancelled = _isCancelled;

- (BOOL)isConcurrent
{
    return YES;
}

- (void)start
{
/* WHY SHOULD I PUT THIS ?
    if (![NSThread isMainThread])
    {
        [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(start) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];
        return;
    }
*/

    [self willChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];
    _isExecuting = YES;
    [self didChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];


    if (_isCancelled == YES)
    {
        NSLog(@"** OPERATION CANCELED **");
    }
    else
    {
        NSLog(@"Operation started.");
        sleep(1);
        [self finish];
    }
}

- (void)finish
{
    NSLog(@"operationfinished.");

    [self willChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];
    [self willChangeValueForKey:@"isFinished"];

    _isExecuting = NO;
    _isFinished = YES;

    [self didChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];
    [self didChangeValueForKey:@"isFinished"];

    if (_isCancelled == YES)
    {
        NSLog(@"** OPERATION CANCELED **");
    }
}

I don't understand why in the exemple I found I need to perform selector on main thread which is put my queue in non concurrent.

Also when I comment this line I get my operations running concurrently but the isCancelled flag is not modified although I call cancelAllOperations.

Thanks a lot

Thierry