how to obtain the UITableViewCell within heightForRowAtIndexPath?

Question

How does one obtain the UITableViewCell when within the heightForRowAtIndexPath method, i.e. given the indexPath?

(then I could access the

Answer 1

The obvious answer is to call cellForRowAtIndexPath, but you may have already discovered there are some issues with that. See this question if you haven't already: UITableView flexible/dynamic heightForRowAtIndexPath

For my last project I used a custom subclass of UICell and implemented a method like this. I then called this from table:heightForRowAtIndexPath: (after looking up the content for that row).

+ (CGFloat) heightOfContent: (NSString *)content
{
    CGFloat contentHeight = 
           [content sizeWithFont: DefaultContentLabelFont
               constrainedToSize: CGSizeMake( DefaultCellSize.width, DefaultContentLabelHeight * DefaultContentLabelNumberOfLines )
                   lineBreakMode: UILineBreakModeWordWrap].height;
    return contentHeight + DefaultCellPaddingHeight;
}