Handling multiple UISwitch controls in a table view without using tag property

Question

I have a table view controller with multiple UISwitch controls in them. I set the delegate to the table view controller with the same action for all switches. I need to be a

Answer 1

I realize I'm about three years late to the party but I've developed a solution without subclassing that I think is preferable (and simpler). I'm working with the exact same scenario as Thaurin's described scenario.

- (void)toggleSwitch:(id) sender
{
    // declare the switch by its type based on the sender element
    UISwitch *switchIsPressed = (UISwitch *)sender;
    // get the indexPath of the cell containing the switch
    NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self indexPathForCellContainingView:switchIsPressed];
    // look up the value of the item that is referenced by the switch - this
    // is from my datasource for the table view
    NSString *elementId = [dataSourceArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
}

Then you want to declare the method shown above, indexPathForCellContainingView. This is a seemingly needless method because it would appear at first glance that all you have to do is identify the switch's superview but there is a difference between the superviews of ios7 and earlier versions, so this handles all:

- (NSIndexPath *)indexPathForCellContainingView:(UIView *)view {
    while (view != nil) {
        if ([view isKindOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]]) {
            return [self.myTableView indexPathForCell:(UITableViewCell *)view];
        } else {
            view = [view superview];
        }
    }   
    return nil;
}