UIBarButtonItem selector not working

Question

I have a MainViewController embed in a Navigation Controller, as shown below:

And in MainViewController.swift, I added two UIBarButtonItem(left and right) programmatically:

class MainViewController: UIViewController {

    let rightButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Right", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(onRightClick))
    let leftButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Left", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(onLeftClick))

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = rightButton
        navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftButton
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    }

    @objc func onRightClick() {
        print("[Main] Right Click")
    }

    @objc func onLeftClick() {
        print("[Main] Left Click")
    }
}

The buttons did show on the screen, but the interesting thing is, the selector functions onLeftClick and onRightClick never get called whenever I pressed left or right button. Is there anything I should do to make it works? I am using Xcode 9.3.

Answer 1

try with inside scope once

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    let rightButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Right", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(self.onRightLeftClick(_ :)))
    rightButton.tag = 1
    let leftButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Left", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(self.onRightLeftClick(_ :)))
    rightButton.tag = 2
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = rightButton
    self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftButton
}

handle the action as

func onRightLeftClick(_ sender: UIBarButtonItem){
    if sender.tag == 1{
        // rightButton action
    }else{
        // leftButton action
    }
}