How to reference UITableViewController from a UITableViewCell class?

Question

I have the following:

1. UITableViewController
2. UITableView
3. Custom UITableViewCell subclass

I used a .xib file for the cell, which

Answer 1

I don't think you should do that and probably you're doing something wrong but if you really-really need it then just have a property in your CustomCell class.

weak var viewController : UIViewController

then when you create the cell in cellForRowAtIndexPath set the property

cell.viewController = self

after that you can easily access the view controller from within the cell code:

self.viewController.doSomething()

But again, in my opinion, you should redesign your code. The cell should not care about the controller. It should care only about displaying itself and nothing else