UITableViewController not loading data

Question

So I have created a subclass of UITableViewController and set the delegate and datasource to itself. But still the methods like cellForRowAtIndexPath

Answer 1

If you are extending the UITableViewController it already creates UITableView instance at viewDidLoad. Try to set a breakpoint there and check it in debugger console:

po [self view]

Therefore you should not create the UITableView instance by yourself at this point. If you need a custom init of the table view you should do it earlier

EDIT

From the documentation:

About Table Views in iOS-Based Applications

The easiest and recommended way to create a table view is to create a custom UITableViewController object. UITableViewController creates the table view and assigns itself as delegate and data source.

Creating a Table View Programmatically

If you choose not to use UITableViewController for table-view management, you must replicate what this class gives you “for free.”

- (void)loadView // <-- NOT VIEW DID LOAD!
{
    UITableView *tableView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]
                                  style:UITableViewStylePlain];
    tableView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight|UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
    tableView.delegate = self;
    tableView.dataSource = self;
    [tableView reloadData];

    self.view = tableView;
    [tableView release];
}