Get to UIViewController from UIView?

Question

Is there a built-in way to get from a UIView to its UIViewController? I know you can get from UIViewController to its UIView

Answer 1

I stumbled upon a situation where I have a small component I want to reuse, and added some code in a reusable view itself(it's really not much more than a button that opens a PopoverController).

While this works fine in the iPad (the UIPopoverController presents itself, therefor needs no reference to a UIViewController), getting the same code to work means suddenly referencing your presentViewController from your UIViewController. Kinda inconsistent right?

Like mentioned before, it's not the best approach to have logic in your UIView. But it felt really useless to wrap the few lines of code needed in a separate controller.

Either way, here's a swift solution, which adds a new property to any UIView:

extension UIView {

    var viewController: UIViewController? {

        var responder: UIResponder? = self

        while responder != nil {

            if let responder = responder as? UIViewController {
                return responder
            }
            responder = responder?.nextResponder()
        }
        return nil
    }
}