Simple UITableView in Swift - unexpectedly found nil

Question

Pretty simple code:

func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView?) -> Int {
    return 1
}

func tableView(tableView:UITableView!, numberOfRows         


        

Answer 1

If you're using storyboard, make sure you don't have this line at the start of your file:

self.tableView.registerClass(CustomTableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "customCell")

It will overwrite the storyboard and as a result, the outlet links in the storyboard are ignored.