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

Alas, this is impossible unless you subclass the view and provide it with an instance property or alike which stores the view controller reference inside it once the view is added to the scene...

In most cases - it is very easy to work around the original problem of this post as most view controllers are well-known entities to the programmer who was responsible for adding any subviews to the ViewController's View ;-) Which is why I guess that Apple never bothered to add that property.