iOS8 Cannot hide cancel button on search bar in UISearchController

Question

My goal is to prevent the cancel button from appearing in a search bar in a UISearchController. I started with Apple\'s Table Search with UISearchController sample code and

Answer 1

Simply subclass UISearchController & UISearchBar.

class NoCancelButtonSearchController: UISearchController {
    let noCancelButtonSearchBar = NoCancelButtonSearchBar()
    override var searchBar: UISearchBar { return noCancelButtonSearchBar }
}

class NoCancelButtonSearchBar: UISearchBar {
    override func setShowsCancelButton(_ showsCancelButton: Bool, animated: Bool) { /* void */ }
}