How to Set UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle and dequeueReusableCell in Swift?

Question

I\'d like a UITableView with subtitle-style cells that use dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier.

My original Objective-C code was

Answer 1

If you'd rather avoid optionality, you can make a subclass of UITableViewCell that looks something like this:

class SubtitleTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {

    override init(style: UITableViewCellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
        super.init(style: .subtitle, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }
}

Then register it using:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.tableView.register(SubtitleTableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
}

This allows your cell customization code to be really nice:

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: reuseIdentifier, for: indexPath)

    cell.textLabel?.text = "foo"
    cell.detailTextLabel?.text = "bar"

    return cell
}