Custom Cell not working in UITableView for Search Results - ios

Question

At the outset I would like to tell that I have researched and tried to follow stackoverflow links such as UISearchDisplayController and custom cell but still the problem persists
I have Search Bar and Search Display controller integrated into my UITableView. The search functionality works fine but the search results cell have the default white cell design and not my custom cell design which is used for the UITableView. Below is my code to make the Search Result's Cell design adapt my custom design.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
[self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView registerClass:[ItemCellTableViewCell class] forCellReuseIdentifier:#"Cell"];
if(!self.document){
[self initDocument];
}
self.filteredItemCatalogArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
self.itemCatalogTableView.dataSource = self;
self.itemCatalogTableView.delegate = self;
[self.itemCatalogTableView reloadData];
self.itemCatalogTableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.itemCatalogTableView.opaque = NO;
self.itemCatalogTableView.bounces = YES;
self.itemCatalogTableView.backgroundView = nil;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
if(tableView == self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView)
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
//cell fields customization
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
cell.opaque = NO;
return cell;
}
else
{
ItemCellTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
//cell fields customization
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
cell.opaque = NO;
return cell;
}
}
What am I missing here ?
EDITED :
In the if block for search results I changed tableview to self.tableview and it gets the correct custom cell. But it takes the incorrect height which is smaller and so overlaps the rows for search results

Answer 1

In the if block for search results I changed tableview to self.tableview and it get the correct custom cell. But it takes the incorrect height which is smaller and so overlaps the rows for search results
to rectify the height issue I added the following line in viewdidload
self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView.rowHeight =
self.tableView.rowHeight ;

Answer 2

1) If your cell are using a xib file you should add to viewDidLoad (or other method that will be called before tableView delegate)
[yourTableView registerNib:[UINib nibWithtName:#"your_nibName" bunde:yourBunde] forCellReuseIdentifier:#"yourIdentifier"]
also you should use registred identifier for custom cell :
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
static NSString *CustomCellIdentifier = #"yourIdentifier";
if(tableView == self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView)
{
// UITableViewCell customization
return cell;
}
else
{
ItemCellTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CustomCellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
if (!cell)
cell = [[ItemCellTableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:yourPreferedStyle reuseIdentifier:CustomCellIdentifier] // or other custom initialization
//put cell fields customization here
return cell;
}
}

Answer 3

If your custom cell is designed using a NIB try this
[self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView registerNib:[UINib nibWithNibName:#"YourCellNibName" bundle:Nil] forCellWithReuseIdentifier:#"Cell"];

Answer 4

You have to get a reference of your tableView and then in
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"CustomTableCell";
MyCell *cell = (MyCell *)[self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
...
}