Use didSelectRowAtIndexPath or prepareForSegue method for UITableView?

Question

I\'m using storyboards and I have a UITableView. I have a segue setup that pushes from my table to the detail VC. But which method should I use to handle this? I\'ll have

Answer 1

if your tableView property is in another class and you only have one section, then you could use the tag property to store the cell's row like:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

     UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"cell"];

     cell.tag = indexPath.row;

     return cell;
}

And then you can access it as the sender is the same cell with the row value in its tag:

- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {

    MyDestinationViewController *destinationViewController = segue.destinationViewController;
    destinationViewController.myProperty = [tableViewElementsArray objectAtIndex:[sender tag]]; // sender will be your cell 
}