How can I pass data from parent to child view? - ios

Question

I have a container view, which uses a storyboard embed segue to load an embedded static table view. The segue ID is 'CONTAINER'.
When I run the following code, the prepareForSegue never actually gets called so no data is passed from the parent to the child.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
if ([sGender isEqualToString:#"MALE"]) {
containerGender = #"MALE";
if ([containerGender isEqualToString:#"MALE"]){
NSLog(#"MALE");
}else{
NSLog(#"BROKEN");
}
}
else if ([sGender isEqualToString:#"FEMALE"]) {
containerGender = #"FEMALE";
}
}
-(void) prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"CONTAINER"]) {
if([containerGender isEqualToString:#"MALE"]) {
if ([containerGender isEqualToString:#"MALE"]){
NSLog(#"MALE");
}else{
NSLog(#"BROKEN");
}
SportTableViewController *tableView = segue.destinationViewController;
tableView.sportGender = #"MALE";
}
else if ([containerGender isEqualToString:#"FEMALE"]){
SportTableViewController *tableView = segue.destinationViewController;
tableView.sportGender = #"FEMALE";
}
}
}
My question is:
a)Why is prepareForSegue not called? Does the Storyboard Embed Segue behave differently to a standard seque?
b)Is there a better way of passing data from the container view to the embedded table?
Also please ignore the messy implementation/various log tests, just my attempts to work out whats going wrong.

Answer 1

My question actually stems from a misunderstanding of how container views load their embedded views. Apparently, it all happens before viewDidLoad. That means my conversion of sGender into containerGender took place too late.
I fixed it by passing sGender to the embedded view directly. I had thought I'd already tried this, but yesterday was obviously a slow day ;).

Answer 2

you can do it..
try
in childViewController
set-
#property(nonatomic,retain)parentViewController *parent;
and
in ParentViewController set-
ChildViewController *child = [[childviewController alloc]init];
child.parent=self;
It will set your parent class in childview and you can get data through parent object in child view controller.