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

This was the simplest solution I could come up with in Swift.

Custom search controller:

class CustomSearchController: UISearchController {

    var _searchBar: CustomSearchBar

    override init(nibName nibNameOrNil: String?, bundle nibBundleOrNil: NSBundle?) {
        self._searchBar = CustomSearchBar()
        super.init(nibName: nibNameOrNil, bundle: nibBundleOrNil)
    }

    override init(searchResultsController: UIViewController?) {
        self._searchBar = CustomSearchBar()
        super.init(searchResultsController: searchResultsController)
    }

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

    override var searchBar: UISearchBar {
        return self._searchBar
    }
}

Custom search bar:

class CustomSearchBar: UISearchBar {
    override func setShowsCancelButton(showsCancelButton: Bool, animated: Bool) {
        // do nothing
    }
}

The most important piece of this was to only create the _searchBar object once in init vs. creating it inside of the stored property.