Getting Nil While Trying to Set Class Label Property | UITableView - ios

Question

I keep getting unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value when I run this code.
What I am trying to do is get the first property in an array of objects so I use .map to get the first property which is "workoutName"
Then I try to set the label in the CellData class to this value but keep getting that it found nil.
I appreciate all help I can get.
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
var workoutName = workouts.map { $0.workoutName }
let cell = CellData()
cell.workoutNameLabel.text! = workoutName[indexPath.row]
return cell
}
Cell Data Class
import UIKit
class CellData: UITableViewCell {
#IBOutlet weak var workoutNameLabel: UILabel!
#IBOutlet weak var numberOfSetsNumberLabel: UILabel!
#IBOutlet weak var numberOfRepsNumberLabel: UILabel!
override func awakeFromNib() {
super.awakeFromNib()
// Initialization code
}
override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
// Configure the view for the selected state
}
}

Answer 1

I would set class variable into CellData class and set it in awakeFromNib since awakeFromNib won't happen before the cellForRow is finished, so you can be almost 100% sure that the label will be nil.. try this:
import UIKit
class CellData: UITableViewCell {
//someLableValue string
var labelValueText: String?
#IBOutlet weak var workoutNameLabel: UILabel!
#IBOutlet weak var numberOfSetsNumberLabel: UILabel!
#IBOutlet weak var numberOfRepsNumberLabel: UILabel!
override func awakeFromNib() {
super.awakeFromNib()
// Initialization code
workoutNameLabel.text = labelValueText
}
override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
// Configure the view for the selected state
}
}
then you jsut set the variable labelValueText in cellForRowMethod in UITableViewController class