How to subclass UITableViewController in Swift

Question

I want to subclass UITableViewController and be able to instantiate it by calling a default initializer with no arguments.

class TestViewController: UITableV         


        

Answer 1

I did it like this

class TestViewController: UITableViewController {

    var dsc_var: UITableViewController?

    override convenience init() {
        self.init(style: .Plain)

        self.title = "Test"
        self.clearsSelectionOnViewWillAppear = true
    }
}

Creating and displaying a instance of TestViewController in a UISplitViewController did work for me with this code. Maybe this is bad practice, please tell me if it is (just started with swift).

For me there's still a problem when there are non optional variables and the solution of Nick Snyder is the only one working in this situation
There's just 1 problem: The variables are initialized 2 times.

Example:

var dsc_statistcs_ctl: StatisticsController?

var dsrc_champions: NSMutableArray

let dsc_search_controller: UISearchController
let dsrc_search_results: NSMutableArray


override init() {
    dsrc_champions = dsrg_champions!

    dsc_search_controller = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
    dsrc_search_results = NSMutableArray.array()

    super.init(style: .Plain) // -> calls init(nibName nibNameOrNil: String?, bundle nibBundleOrNil: NSBundle?) of this class
}

required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
    fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}

private override init(nibName nibNameOrNil: String?, bundle nibBundleOrNil: NSBundle?) {
    // following variables were already initialized when init() was called and now initialized again
    dsrc_champions = dsrg_champions!

    dsc_search_controller = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
    dsrc_search_results = NSMutableArray.array()

    super.init(nibName: nibNameOrNil, bundle: nibBundleOrNil)
}