Exercise 2: Adding a Real OSSignposter Interval Around syncWithServer() — Possible Solution ================================================================================================ import os let signposter = OSSignposter(logHandle: OSLog(subsystem: "com.osztromok.taskflow", category: "sync")) @MainActor @Observable final class TaskListViewModel { var tasks: [Task] = [] var isSyncing = false func syncWithServer() async { let interval = signposter.beginInterval("Sync With Server") defer { signposter.endInterval("Sync With Server", interval) } isSyncing = true defer { isSyncing = false } do { let (data, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(from: syncURL) let dtos = try JSONDecoder().decode([TaskDTO].self, from: data) tasks = dtos.map { $0.toTask() } } catch { // real error handling from Architecture & Data's own capstone, unchanged } } } HOW IT WORKS: The chapter's own established pattern wraps the real work - everything syncWithServer() actually does - between a signposter.beginInterval("Sync With Server") call and a matching signposter.endInterval("Sync With Server", interval) call, using Swift's own defer keyword so the interval is guaranteed to close no matter which real path the function takes, including the catch branch if the request genuinely fails. Placing the signpost calls first and last, wrapping the entire method body rather than just part of it, means the real interval shown in Instruments' own timeline measures the true, full duration of syncWithServer() - the real network request, the real JSON decode, and the real assignment back to tasks - not just one piece of it. This gives a real, precise, directly-measured answer to "how long does a sync genuinely take, end to end" rather than an estimate pieced together from separate Time Profiler samples. ANSWER: Wrap syncWithServer()'s own body with signposter.beginInterval("Sync With Server") at the start and a deferred signposter.endInterval("Sync With Server", interval) call, so the real interval shown in Instruments covers the method's true full duration regardless of which code path it actually takes. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This correctly applies the chapter's own established beginInterval/ endInterval pattern to a real method from a prior chapter's capstone, using defer to guarantee the interval closes on every real code path.