Manually call didSelectRowatIndexPath

Question

I am trying to call didSelectRowAtIndexPath programmatically but am having trouble.

[self tableView:playListTbl didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
         


        

Answer 1

Starting from Mistalis answer, I made this little ExtendedCell class because I use it in several table views.

Usage in table view:

// Here MyTableView is UITableView and UITableViewDelegate
// but you can separate them.

class MyTableView: UITableView, UITableViewDelegate {

    override func dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier identifier: String) -> UITableViewCell? {
        return MyCell(identifier: identifier, table: self)
    }

    // ...
}

Implementation of your cell:

class MyCell : ExtendedCell {

    convenience init(identifier: String?, table: MyTableView)
    {
        // in this example, MyTableView is both table and delegate
        self.init(identifier: identifier, table: table, delegate: table)

        // ...
    }

    // At any moment you may call selectTableRow() to select
    // the row associated to this cell.
    func viewItemDetail() {
      selectTableRow()
    }
}

ExtendedCell class:

import UIKit

/**
 * UITableViewCell with extended functionality like
 * the ability to trigger a selected row on the table
 */
class ExtendedCell : UITableViewCell {

    // We store the table and delegate to trigger the selected cell
    // See: https://stackoverflow.com/q/18245441/manually-call-did-select-row-at-index-path

    weak var table : UITableView!
    weak var delegate : UITableViewDelegate!

    convenience init(identifier: String?, table: UITableView, delegate: UITableViewDelegate)
    {
        self.init(style: .default, reuseIdentifier: identifier)

        self.table = table
        self.delegate = delegate
    }

    func selectTableRow()
    {
        if let indexPath = table.indexPath(for: self) {
            table.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .none)
            delegate.tableView!(table, didSelectRowAt: indexPath)
        }
    }
}