Loading a Reusable UITableViewCell from a Nib

Question

I am able to design custom UITableViewCells and load them just fine using the technique described in the thread found at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=545061.

Answer 1

From the UITableView docs regarding dequeueWithReuseIdentifier: "A string identifying the cell object to be reused. By default, a reusable cell’s identifier is its class name, but you can change it to any arbitrary value."

Overriding -reuseIdentifer yourself is risky. What happens if you have two subclasses of your cell subclass, and use both of these in a single table view? If they send the reuse identifier call onto super you'll dequeue a cell of the wrong type.............. I think you need to override the reuseIdentifier method, but have it return a supplanted identifier string. Or, if one has not been specified, have it return the class as a string.