Removing the last Cell in UICollectionView makes a Crash - ios

Question

Hi I'm working with a Custom UICollectionView (https://github.com/SureCase/WaterfallCollectionView) where everything works fine. Now I'm setting up delete items from the UICollectionView, and I can delete them fine. The problem comes when I'm trying to delete the last item of the section.
It gives the following error.
*** Assertion failure in -[UICollectionViewData layoutAttributesForSupplementaryElementOfKind:atIndexPath:], /SourceCache/UIKit/UIKit-2935.137/UICollectionViewData.m:787
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'no UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes instance for -layoutAttributesForSupplementaryElementOfKind: UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader at path <NSIndexPath: 0xc000000000000016> {length = 2, path = 0 - 0}'
The Code I'm using to delete items is the following:
- (void) alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
if (buttonIndex == 0){
NSLog(#"Erasing Objects!");
//First I remove Items from DataSource, and after from Collection View
[self deleteItemsFromDataSourceAtIndexPaths:selectedIndexes];
[self.cv deleteItemsAtIndexPaths:selectedIndexes];
[selectedIObjectsIndexes removeAllObjects];
[selectedIndexes removeAllObjects];
EditUICollection=NO;
EasyMediaGreenView.hidden = YES;
dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, 0.7 * NSEC_PER_SEC), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
[self.cv reloadData];
});
}else{
NSLog(#"Not delete");
}
}
So first I'm removing items from DataSource and then from de Collection View. Here the Code for removing from Data Source.
-(void)deleteItemsFromDataSourceAtIndexPaths:(NSArray *)itemPaths
{
NSMutableIndexSet *indexSet = [NSMutableIndexSet indexSet];
for (NSIndexPath *itemPath in itemPaths) {
[indexSet addIndex:itemPath.row];
}
[idObject removeObjectsAtIndexes:indexSet];
[typeObject removeObjectsAtIndexes:indexSet];
[urlObject removeObjectsAtIndexes:indexSet];
[textObject removeObjectsAtIndexes:indexSet];
}
Why is this happening when I try to remove last object, when all other objects are removed correctly? I would like to understand this part, & any idea how to fix this? Thanks to all.

Answer 1

I Found a solution!
I was always returning 1 for section, so even with no items the CollectionView was being constructed, and asking to build a Header, like this:
- (UICollectionReusableView *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView
viewForSupplementaryElementOfKind:(NSString *)kind
atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath; {
So I counted the items in my data array, and if the array is empty, there shouldn't be a section.
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInCollectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView {
if(idObject.count>0){ return 1; }
else{ return 0; }
}
So where I'm deleting the items from my data array, I can check if the array is empty, if is not empty I'll delete items, if it is, I'll delete the entire section.
NSLog(#"Erasing Objects!");
[self deleteItemsFromDataSourceAtIndexPaths:selectedIndexes];
if(idShadeInside.count > 0){
[self.cv deleteItemsAtIndexPaths:selectedIndexes];
}
else{
//Creating an IndexSet with the Section to Erase
NSMutableIndexSet *indexSet = [NSMutableIndexSet indexSet];[indexSet addIndex:0];
[self.cv deleteSections:indexSet];
}
So problem fixed!

Answer 2

i have done this features, here i provides you a simple code to delete cell from Collection View.
Just pass you index in integer here.
-(void)remove:(int)i {
#try {
[self.collection performBatchUpdates:^{
[self.arrayThumbImg removeObjectAtIndex:i];
NSIndexPath *indexPath =[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:i inSection:0];
[self.collection deleteItemsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath]];
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
}];
}
#catch (NSException *exception) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#",exception);
}
#finally {
}
}