UITableView in Swift

Question

I\'m struggling to figure out what\'s wrong with this code snippet. This is currently working in Objective-C, but in Swift this just crashes on the first line of the method.

Answer 1

Try this:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView!, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath!) -> UITableViewCell! {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as UITableViewCell
    cell.textLabel.text = "\(indexPath.row)"

    return cell
}

Note that you should register you UITableViewCell and ID when creating instantiating your UITableView:

tableView.delegate = self
tableView.dataSource = self
tableView.registerClass(UITableViewCell.classForCoder(), forCellReuseIdentifier: "Cell")

Answer 2

There's a few answers here, but I don't think any of them are ideal, because after the declaration you're ending up with an optional UITableViewCell, which then needs a cell!... in any declarations. I think this is a better approach (I can confirm this compiles on Xcode 6.1):

var cell:UITableViewCell

if let c = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell") as? UITableViewCell {
    cell = c
}
else {
    cell = UITableViewCell()
}

Answer 3

bro, please take a look at the sample https://github.com/brotchie/SwiftTableView

Answer 4

UITableView Demo using Playground

//: Playground - noun: a place where people can play

import UIKit
import PlaygroundSupport

class TableviewDemoDelegate:NSObject,UITableViewDataSource,UITableViewDelegate {


    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return 100
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

        var cell:UITableViewCell? = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell", for: indexPath as IndexPath)

        if cell == nil {
            cell = UITableViewCell(style: .default, reuseIdentifier: "cell")
        }


        cell?.textLabel?.text = "Item \(indexPath.row+1)"

        return cell!
    }


    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        print("You have selected cell #\(indexPath.row)!")

    }
}

var tableView = UITableView(frame:CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 320, height: 568), style: .plain)
tableView.register(UITableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "cell")

let delegate = TableviewDemoDelegate()
tableView.delegate = delegate
tableView.dataSource = delegate


PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = tableView

Answer 5

Also see matt's answer which contains the second half of the solution

Let's find a solution without creating custom subclasses or nibs

The real problem is in the fact that Swift distinguishes between objects that can be empty (nil) and objects that can't be empty. If you don't register a nib for your identifier, then dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier can return nil.

That means we have to declare the variable as optional:

var cell : UITableViewCell?

and we have to cast using as? not as

//variable type is inferred
var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("CELL") as? UITableViewCell

if cell == nil {
    cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Value1, reuseIdentifier: "CELL")
}

// we know that cell is not empty now so we use ! to force unwrapping but you could also define cell as
// let cell = (tableView.dequeue... as? UITableViewCell) ?? UITableViewCell(style: ...)

cell!.textLabel.text = "Baking Soda"
cell!.detailTextLabel.text = "1/2 cup"

cell!.textLabel.text = "Hello World"

return cell