Load Image async for NSTextAttachment for UITableViewCell

Question

Loading images dynamically in async thread or image cache library like SDwebimage. Below code is what I tried and it doesn't repaint after image fetched from network.

    let mutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString()

    if let _img = newsItem.img {
        var attachment = NSTextAttachment()
        attachment.bounds = CGRectMake(4, 4, expectedWidth, expectedWidth * _img.ratio)

        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), { () -> Void in
            attachment.image = UIImage(data: NSData(contentsOfURL: NSURL(string: _img.src)!)!)
        })

        mutableAttributedString.appendAttributedString(NSAttributedString(attachment: attachment))
    }

Answer 1

After image of NSTextAttachment was set, you need to force refreshing of textView contents. For that you can use textView.layoutManager's method invalidateDisplayCharacterRange, where range - is the range of your NSTextAttachement substring