Using a cell in another file in Swift - ios

Question

I would like to keep the content of a UITableView cell in a separate file as I do in Objective-c even in my TodayExtension Swift table in order to wire it to the storyboard. Yet when I try to do it, it complaints it cannot find the class of the cell; this is the function I use:
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView,
cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
println(indexPath)
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(
TableViewConstants.cellIdentifier,
forIndexPath: indexPath) as! TodayCell
let entry = busCollection[indexPath.row]
cell.bus=entry.bus
cell.destination=entry.destination;
return cell
}
todayCell is the class in another file it reports it cannot find:
import UIKit
class TodayCell: UITableViewCell {
#IBOutlet var bus: UILabel!
#IBOutlet var stopAddress: UILabel!
#IBOutlet var destination: UILabel!
}
Importing the file, even if not needed according the the Swift documentation, moved the error in the import statement.

Answer 1

Programmatically:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
tableView.registerClass(todayCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "todayCell")
}
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("todayCell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! todayCell
// Setup
return cell
}
This should do it.
Storyboard:
If you're using prototypes, then you just have to set the prototype class to todayCell and an identifier. This identifier is used when you're creating the cell in tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier()

Answer 2

I found the problem: Xcode forgot to add the new TodayCell file to the list of compile sources when I added it to the project. Once I manually did it everything worked fine - I had a funny horror trip in a list of errors in the MKStoreManager library, but all of them went away upon returning to the last commit.