Getting location using another class not working when calling function swift - ios

Question

I was using the ViewController class before to get the users updates but now when expanding the application i needed to move it to another class that simply handles all the location updates. Here is the code that i am using now:
class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {
#IBAction func pickMeUpButton(sender: AnyObject) {
sendPushNotificationController().sendPushNotification("sendRequest",userLat: defaults.stringForKey("userLat")!, userLong: defaults.stringForKey("userLong")! )
}
#IBOutlet var numberForPickup: UITextField!
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.numberForPickup.delegate = self
getLocationController().initLocation()
}
So i made another class called getLocationController with an init function that should start the location updates. Here is the code:
class getLocationController: UIViewController, CLLocationManagerDelegate {
var locationManager: CLLocationManager!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
func initLocation(){
print("Im in here")
locationManager = CLLocationManager()
locationManager.delegate = self
locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest
locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()
locationManager.startUpdatingLocation()
}
func locationManager(manager: CLLocationManager, didUpdateToLocation newLocation: CLLocation, fromLocation oldLocation: CLLocation) {
print("In location")
if UIApplication.sharedApplication().applicationState == .Active {
print("App in Foreground")
}else {
let Device = UIDevice.currentDevice()
let iosVersion = Double(Device.systemVersion) ?? 0
let iOS9 = iosVersion >= 9
if iOS9{
locationManager.allowsBackgroundLocationUpdates = true;
locationManager.pausesLocationUpdatesAutomatically = false;
}
//let iOS7 = iosVersion >= 7 && iosVersion < 8
print("App is backgrounded. New location is %#", newLocation)
}
}
}
Now the print in initLocation is printed but not the print in didUpdateLocations. I used the very same code in ViewController class and it worked perfectly fine. Now when i am trying to move it to another class that is now really a view on the phone but simply a helper class its not working. Any ideas why?

Answer 1

I don't see you assigning the getLocationController to a variable anywhere in the ViewController. That means the getLocationController would go out of scope and be destroyed, wouldn't it? That would explain why the callback didUpdateToLocation isn't called.
Try:
class ViewController: UITextFieldDelegate {
#IBAction func pickMeUpButton(sender: AnyObject) {
sendPushNotificationController().sendPushNotification("sendRequest",userLat: defaults.stringForKey("userLat")!, userLong: defaults.stringForKey("userLong")! )
}
#IBOutlet var numberForPickup: UITextField!
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
var glc:getLocationController // is this how it is in Swift?!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.numberForPickup.delegate = self
glc = getLocationController()
glc.initLocation()
}