UISearchBar is not searching when entering text - ios

Question

I have a Table View that is working fine. However, when I try to implement a UISearchBar and display filtered data, nothing gets filtered. This is my View Controller:
import UIKit
class MealPlanViewController: UIViewController, UISearchBarDelegate {
private var model = MealPlanModel()
private var mealPlan = [MealPlan]()
var filteredData: [MealPlan]!
#IBOutlet weak var topBarStackView: UIStackView!
#IBOutlet weak var searchBar: UISearchBar!
#IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
tableView.delegate = self
tableView.dataSource = self
model.delegate = self
searchBar.delegate = self
filteredData = mealPlan
}
func searchBar(_ searchBar: UISearchBar, textDidChange searchText: String) {
filteredData = []
if searchText == "" {
filteredData = mealPlan
}
else {
for item in mealPlan {
if ((item.title?.lowercased().contains(searchText.lowercased())) != nil) {
filteredData.append(item)
}
}
}
self.tableView.reloadData()
}
}
extension MealPlanViewController: UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return filteredData.count
}
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "MealPlanCell", for: indexPath) as! MealPlanCell
let filteredMealPlaninTable = filteredData[indexPath.row]
cell.displayMealPlan(filteredMealPlaninTable)
return cell
}
}
extension MealPlanViewController: MealPlanProtocol {
func mealPlansRetrieved(mealPlans: [MealPlan]) {
self.filteredData = mealPlans
tableView.reloadData()
}
}
A couple of notes:
When I run a print(self.filteredData) in my `func mealPlansRetrieved', the console returns all of my data as if it wasn't filtered, but
As soon as I start typing in the search bar, the table view doesn't return any cells, which seems contradictory to the above
For reference, this is the code before filtering that did work:
extension MealPlanViewController: UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return mealPlan.count
}
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "MealPlanCell", for: indexPath) as! MealPlanCell
let mealPlanInTable = mealPlan[indexPath.row]
cell.displayMealPlan(mealPlanInTable)
return cell
}
}
extension MealPlanViewController: MealPlanProtocol {
func mealPlansRetrieved(mealPlans: [MealPlan]) {
self.mealPlan = mealPlans
tableView.reloadData()
}
}
Any help/guidance is much appreciated!

Answer 1

Contains returns boolean so this will never fail: item.title?.lowercased().contains(searchText.lowercased())) != nil
To make check work you can simply remove "!= nil".
Im not sure from where you are calling mealPlansRetrieved, but you might want to keep the line "self.mealPlan = mealPlans" instead of "self.filteredData = mealPlans".