When editing, `UITableView` does not call didSelectRowAtIndexPath ??

Question

I have a UITableViewController where the user should be able to edit the items. In order to enable editing I use this :

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Answer 1

but as soon as I hit the edit button and while editing is active, this method does not seemed to be called.

Any idea what I missing ?

Yes. You are expecting tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: to be called when a button in your nav bar is tapped. This will never happen. That method is only called when a row is selected.

When the edit button is tapped, you will want to put your table into editing mode. In your view controller:

- (void)setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super setEditing:editing animated:animated]; // must be called first according to Apple docs

    [self.tableView setEditing:editing animated:animated];
}

Then you handle editing events by adding a tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath: method.