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 don't think it's "bad" idea to find out who is the view controller for some cases. What could be a bad idea is to save the reference to this controller as it could change just as superviews change. In my case I have a getter that traverses the responder chain.

//.h

@property (nonatomic, readonly) UIViewController * viewController;

//.m

- (UIViewController *)viewController
{
    for (UIResponder * nextResponder = self.nextResponder;
         nextResponder;
         nextResponder = nextResponder.nextResponder)
    {
        if ([nextResponder isKindOfClass:[UIViewController class]])
            return (UIViewController *)nextResponder;
    }

    // Not found
    NSLog(@"%@ doesn't seem to have a viewController". self);
    return nil;
}