Loop through textFields ONLY, in UITableView - ios

Question

I have a custom UITableView. I have textFields and other objects in the tableView. I'm trying to loop through all the textFields only.
Here is my Code:
for (int i = 0; i < [self.rowArray count]; i++) {
UITableViewCell *cell = [self.myTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForItem:i inSection:0]];
for (UITextField *textField in [cell.contentView subviews]) {
NSLog(#"%#", textField.text);
}
}
The app crashes with the following error:
Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[UIImageView text]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7f89eb57b000'
The problem is obviously that it cannot do an NSLog of an image. But it wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to go through the textFields?

Answer 1

You can test the class of the subviews using isKindOfClass::
for (int i = 0; i < [self.rowArray count]; i++) {
UITableViewCell *cell = [self.myTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForItem:i inSection:0]];
for (id subview in [cell.contentView subviews]) {
if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
UITextField *textField = (UITextField *)subview;
NSLog(#"%#", textField.text);
}
}
}
NOTE You should not be interrogating the tableview in this way as it's the V bit of MVC and you already have access to all the data within the M bit...

Answer 2

Try this:
Provide a unique tag to the textField when u add them as subview to the cells. For Example: Take a constant value
#define kTagTextField 1211
Now in cellForRowAtIndexPath: do this
[textField setTag:(kTagTextField+indexPath.row)];
and where u want to have the text do this
for (int i = 0; i < [self.rowArray count]; i++) {
UITableViewCell *cell = [self.myTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForItem:i inSection:0]];
if([cell viewWithTag:(kTagTextField+i)]) {
UITextField *txtField = [cell viewWithTag:(kTagTextField+i)];
NSLog(#"%#", textField.text);
}
}