Segue to chat viewcontroller - ios

Question

I have included images to hopefully make this easier to understand. My FirstViewController has a collection view with a list of users from my firebase database.When I click on the users I am segued to a DetailedViewController that has more information about the user that was clicked. Within that viewController, the goal is to click on the compose button and segue to a viewController that allows me to chat with the user, whose profile I clicked on.
I have gotten as far as this for segueing from DetailedViewController to Message user 1.
#IBAction func SendMessage(_ sender: Any) {
performSegue(withIdentifier: "chat", sender: self)
}
I am not sure how to make sure I am sending the particular user I click on a message.
This is how I am passing data from FirstViewController to DetailedViewController.
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
if segue.identifier == "details" {
if let indexPaths = self.CollectionView!.indexPathsForSelectedItems{
let vc = segue.destination as! BookDetailsViewController
let cell = sender as! UICollectionViewCell
let indexPath = self.CollectionView!.indexPath(for: cell)
let post = self.posts[(indexPath?.row)!] as! [String: AnyObject]
let Booked = post["title"] as? String
vc.Booked = Booked
print(indexPath?.row)
} }

Answer 1

One route to take is in your DetailViewController class, or whatever class you have implementing performSegue(withIdentifier:, sender:), add this:
override public func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
guard segue.identifier == "chat", let dest = segue.destination as? ChatViewController else {
return
}
dest.user = self.user
}
I don't know how you have the user declared but if user is an object, do what I have above. If you're saying user as a way to umbrella multiple properties you want to pass.. do this:
dest.name = self.name
dest.number = self.number
//etc
prepare(for segue:, sender:) allows you to intercept any segue from it's class and set up whatever variables needed before the performSegue(...) executes. To target your code to a specific segue/destination/situation, make sure your code runs a check on those constraints before executing; otherwise the code will execute on all segues implemented in the class. In my example, I used your segue's identifier as that check.