How to show an alert from another class in Swift?

Question

I have a main class, AddFriendsController, that runs the following line of code:

ErrorReporting.showMessage(\"Error\", msg: \"Could not add student          


        

Answer 1

You can create extension method for UIApplication (for example) which will return your topViewController:

extension UIApplication {

    static func topViewController(base: UIViewController? = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate?.window??.rootViewController) -> UIViewController? {
        if let nav = base as? UINavigationController {
            return topViewController(nav.visibleViewController)
        }
        if let tab = base as? UITabBarController, selected = tab.selectedViewController {
            return topViewController(selected)
        }
        if let presented = base?.presentedViewController {
            return topViewController(presented)
        }

        return base
    }
}

And then your class will look like this:

class ErrorReporting {

    static func showMessage(title: String, msg: String) {
        let alert = UIAlertController(title: title, message: msg, preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))
        UIApplication.topViewController()?.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

Method need to be static to be able to call it as ErrorReporting.showMessage.