iPhone - dismiss multiple ViewControllers

Question

I have a long View Controllers hierarchy;

in the first View Controller I use this code:

SecondViewController *svc = [[SecondViewController alloc] i         


        

Answer 1

Swift extension based upon the above answers:

extension UIViewController {

    func dismissUntilAnimated(animated: Bool, viewController: T.Type, completion: ((viewController: T) -> Void)?) {
        var vc = presentingViewController!
        while let new = vc.presentingViewController where !(new is T) {
            vc = new
        }
        vc.dismissViewControllerAnimated(animated, completion: {
            completion?(viewController: vc as! T)
        })
    }
}

Swift 3.0 version:

extension UIViewController {

    /// Dismiss all modally presented view controllers until a specified view controller is reached. If no view controller is found, this function will do nothing.

    /// - Parameter reached:      The type of the view controller to dismiss until.
    /// - Parameter flag:         Pass `true` to animate the transition.
    /// - Parameter completion:   The block to execute after the view controller is dismissed. This block contains the instance of the `presentingViewController`. You may specify `nil` for this parameter.
    func dismiss(until reached: T.Type, animated flag: Bool, completion: ((T) -> Void)? = nil) {
        guard let presenting = presentingViewController as? T else {
            return presentingViewController?.dismiss(until: reached, animated: flag, completion: completion) ?? ()
        }

        presenting.dismiss(animated: flag) {
            completion?(presenting)
        }
    }
}

Completely forgot why I made this as it is incredibly stupid logic considering most of the time a modal view controller's presenting view controller is UITabBarController rendering this completely useless. It makes much more sense to actually acquire the base view controller instance and call dismiss on that.