Given a view, how do I get its viewController?

Question

I have a pointer to a UIView. How do I access its UIViewController? [self superview] is another UIView, but not the

Answer 1

The fast and generic way in Swift 3:

extension UIResponder {
    func parentController(of type: T.Type) -> T? {
        guard let next = self.next else {
            return nil
        }
        return (next as? T) ?? next.parentController(of: T.self)
    }
}

//Use:
class MyView: UIView {
    ...
    let parentController = self.parentController(of: MyViewController.self)
}