Tableview Controller with a dynamic tableview in its static cell - ios

Question

I have a form inside a tableview controller. The last 3 parts of the form are address textfield, map and a save button. When the user begins typing on the address field a uitableview will slide up covering the map to display different results. When I set the child tableview mapTableview's delegate and datasource to self this is when the problem would start, the screen just displays a white background. I tried different solutions but they don't work. Also tried this one but the data source must be coming from the tableview controller itself. Dynamic Tableview inside a Static tableview Cell
When I create an array of strings in the class Datasource and put the following codes below in my tableview controller, the strings get displayed in the mapTableView.
var dataSource = DataSource()
mapTableView.delegate = dataSource
maptTableView.delegate = dataSource
But since the data source must be coming from tableview controller, I tried to put the code below, and many other things as suggested in other posts, in my table view controller but the screen won't display anything, just all white. And I get these errors:
UITableView was told to layout its visible cells and other contents without being in the view hierarchy (the table view or one of its superviews has not been added to a window)
Detected a case where constraints ambiguously suggest a height of zero for a table view cell's content view. We're considering the collapse unintentional and using standard height instead
extension EditProfileTableViewController {
override func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
return 1
}
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return pois.count
}
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cellResult", for: indexPath) as! MapTableViewCell
let poi = pois[indexPath.row]
cell.textLabel?.text = poi.title
cell.detailTextLabel?.text = poi.subtitle
cell.detailTextLabel?.numberOfLines = 0
return cell
}
}
and in my viewDidLoad
tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 60.0;
tableView.rowHeight = UITableView.automaticDimension;
How to correctly put a tableview inside a static tableview cell? Please help

Answer 1

You should create another table view controller for the inner table view. Let's call it MapTableViewController.
Add Container View into the static cell in storyboard.
Add Table View Controller into that container view, set its class to MapTableViewController.
Put all datasource/delegate methods for mapTableView from the EditProfileTableViewController into MapTableViewController. After that, EditProfileTableViewController should have no UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate protocol methods at all.