numberOfSectionsInTableView for 2 different cells in the same controller - ios

Question

I have a view that has 2 independent cells. Everything is working properly, except the numberOfRowsInSection return that must be different for each cell.
I want my cell "dummy" to only return 1 or 2.
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
//I need to add some code in here that will say that
//if my cell = dummy then return 1 else
//Returning table count based on number of Team Names
return _teamNames.count;
}
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
if (indexPath.section == 0 && indexPath.row == 0) {
return indexPath.row + 20 - indexPath.row;
}
if (indexPath.section == 0 && indexPath.row == 18) {
return indexPath.row + 50 - indexPath.row;
} else {
return indexPath.row + 26 - indexPath.row;
}
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *dummycell = #"dummy";
dummytest *cellar = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:dummycell
forIndexPath:indexPath];
cellar.righthere.text = #"hello";
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"StandingsIdent";
StandingsViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier
forIndexPath:indexPath];
Any ideas? Thank you.

Answer 1

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
// I need to add some code in here that will say that if my cell = dummy then return 1 else
// You need to set this bool value in your code somewhere - where you have some sort of toggle button between - Dummycell and StandingsViewCell
if(isDummyCell)
{
return 1;
}
else
{
return _teamNames.count; // Returning table count based on number of Team Names
}
}

Answer 2

You can use a NSMutableDictionary as source for your Table View data (i.e. "MyData"), so you can control the behaviour of every cell directly by the data source.
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
//list of elements
if (self.keys.count == 0) {
return 0;
}
NSString *key = [self.keys objectAtIndex:section];
NSArray *mySection = [MyData objectForKey:key];
return [mySection count];
}
where keys is the array that holds your sections. When you load your data, if you want an alphabetical order, you've only to do:
NSMutableArray *keyArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
[keyArray addObjectsFromArray:[[self.MyData allKeys] sortedArrayUsingSelector:#selector(compare:)]];
self.keys = keyArray;