Added a tableview on a viewController, but the data is not there - ios

Question

My goal is to make a grouped tableView, but for somehow the data is not added to the table View
Here's the story board picture
I added a table View on top of view controller which is
and the code that I wrote seems like it don't work
import UIKit
import Alamofire
import SwiftyJSON
import KeychainAccess
class SettingsViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {
#IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!
let keychain = Keychain(server: "https://genietesting.herokuapp.com", protocolType: .HTTPS)
var profile: [String]?
let aboutGenie = [
"How it works",
"About",
"Contact"
]
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let firstName = keychain[string: "first_name"]
profile = [
firstName!
]
tableView.dataSource = self
tableView.delegate = self
}
func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
return 2
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
if section == 0 {
return profile!.count
} else {
return aboutGenie.count
}
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, titleForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> String? {
if section == 0 {
return "Profile"
} else {
return "About Genie"
}
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let tableCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("myCell")
return tableCell!
}
}
and of course, I want to make it clickable so that it would go to its own viewController
After some suggestion, I changed most of my codes above and the result is still the same but this time it shows the header
The result is

Answer 1

airsoftFreak,
There are multiple mistakes I can figure out
There is no IBOutlet for your tableView which is added on top of your ViewController.
So you must be having something like
#IBOutlet var tableView: UITableView!
Your SettingsViewController only confirms to UITableViewDataSource and not to UITableViewDelegate. If you wamt to get didSelectRowAtIndexPath to be triggerred you have to confirm to UITableViewDelegate
class SettingsViewController: UIViewController,UITableViewDelegate,UITableViewDataSource {
As many have noticed and mentioned in their answer you will have to set your viewController as delegate for both UITableViewDelegate,UITableViewDataSource so
self.tableView.dataSource = self
self.tableView.delegate = self
The way you are instantiating cell is wrong as well :) Yopu should not create tableViewCell everytime for each cell :) Go to your TableView in storyBoard add a prototype cell, decorate it the way you want and the set the reusableIndentifier for it. Lets say reusableIndentifier you set is 'myCell'
your cellForRowAtIndexPath will change to
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
//assuming you have different cells for each section
switch indexPath.section {
case 0: let tableCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("myCell")
tableCell.textLabel.text = profile[indexPath.row]
return tableCell
//in swift switch has to be exhaustive so default
default: let secondSectionCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("second_section_cell_identifier")
secondSectionCell.textLabel.text =aboutGenie[indexPath.row]
return secondSectionCell
}
}

Answer 2

Try to drag (ctrl+drag) the tableview to the yellow button at the top of the viewcontroller. You will now see to options: datasource and delegate. Choose one of these to and perform the action again for the other. Now the tableview should be linked to your code.
If the option to make it clickable was a question as well:
With the function didSelectRowAtIndexpath, you can achieve this. There should be a lot of stacks about this issue available.

Answer 3

You probably have not wired the UITableView delegate and dataSource methods to the viewController. You can do this in two ways.
1. programatically
create a tableViewOutlet
override fun viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
yourTableViewOutlet.delegate = self
yourTableViewOutlet.dataSource = self
}
in interfaceBuilder
a) open the document outline in the storyboard.
b) control drag from your tableView to your ViewController.
c) connect delegate and dataSource one by one.
click on the cell will fire the delegate method didSelectRowAtIndexPath

Answer 4

self.tableView.delegate and self.tableView.datasource
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let firstName = keychain[string: "first_name"]
profile = [
firstName!
]
self.tableView.delegate = self
self.tableView.datasource = self
}