failed to obtain a cell from its dataSource with swift 3

Question

I have the below UITableViewController attached as a searchResultsController:

import UIKit
import MapKit

class LocationSearchTable : UITableViewController {         


        

Answer 1

I had similar issue! After several minutes of debugging, I realized I didn't inherit the

UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource

on my ViewController.

Answer 2

The error

failed to obtain a cell from its dataSource

occurs because the signature of cellForRowAtIndexPath is wrong. In Swift 3 it's

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

and use the convenience method

let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell", for:indexPath)

which returns always a valid non-optional cell.

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PS: You don't need to set datasource and delegate to self because UITableViewController does that implicitly