Swift - TableView crashing when scrolling back up - ios

Question

I have been struggling with this issue. I can scroll freely between the tag cells because it actually remembers them. But if I get the description cell out of my view it immediately removes it from memory and doesn't get it back. Instead I just get "fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value" when I scroll back to the description. So I have the following pieces of code:
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(true)
tableView.delegate = self
tableView.dataSource = self
tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension
tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 44.0
tableView.reloadData()
}
I don't know if the viewWillAppear is of any importance in this case but if it is then tell me. Anyway, this is for filling in the cells in my table view:
func GetDescription(cell:descCell, indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
cell.descText.text = descriptTextTwo.htmlToString
}
func GetTagCell(cell:basicTag, indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
let item = tagResults[indexPath.row]!
cell.titleLabel.text = item["tagname"]?.htmlToString
}
func GetValueCell(cell: basicTag, indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
let item = tagResults[indexPath.row]!
cell.valueLabel.text = item["value"]?.htmlToString
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
if filledDescription == false {
return getDescriptionAtIndexPath(indexPath)
} else {
return getTagAtIndexPath(indexPath)
}
}
func getDescriptionAtIndexPath(indexPath:NSIndexPath) -> descCell {
let cell = self.tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(descriptionCell) as descCell
GetDescription(cell, indexPath: indexPath)
filledDescription = true
return cell
}
func getTagAtIndexPath(indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> basicTag {
let cell = self.tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(tagCell) as basicTag
GetTagCell(cell, indexPath: indexPath)
GetValueCell(cell, indexPath: indexPath)
return cell
}
So how can I make Swift remember what is in the first cell? Because I am guessing that that is what happens, that it removes what was in the first cell as soon as you get it out of the view. I am guessing I have to do something with "indexPath" but I am not exactly sure how to implement it in this case and if I am far off, please tell me what I am doing wrong. Thanks!

Answer 1

Change the following :
if filledDescription == false {
return getDescriptionAtIndexPath(indexPath)
} else {
return getTagAtIndexPath(indexPath)
}
With:
if indexPath.row == 0 {
return getDescriptionAtIndexPath(indexPath)
} else {
return getTagAtIndexPath(indexPath)
}
This will make sure that the first cell in the table will always treated as a "Description" cell. Since the filledDescription never becomes false after your set it to true, when you get back to the first cell it is treated as a "Tag" cell (due to the if line) where in fact the reusable cell contains "Description" cell data