How to call EditTable method of UITableView from some other class? - ios

I want to edit UITableView by calling EditTable method on a button click of some other class. In other words, I want to delete rows from UITableview from some other viewcontroller without navigating to that UITableView.
Please tell me the way to achieve this or any sample code for it.

If you want to delete rows from a tableview you just need to delete the corresponding rows from the datasource. When the table is next shown it should know how to reload it's data so the changes in the datasource are applied to the table.
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You shouldn't rely on sending messages to view controllers that are deeper in the stack because they may have been unloaded already.

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Is there a way to directly access UICollectionView elements without reloading?

I have another question open where I'm trying to figure out how to reload the collectionView without auto-scrolling. I was also realizing there are a lot of other situations where I will need to change things in the collection view. Also I have some items that I will want to change the .alpha on and change the text of. Is there a way to do all of this in Swift? For example (to be specific) if I have a collection view with a view in each cell and that view has a textField in it, can I change the alpha and text, (change alpha with animation even) without reloading entire table?
Look at the documentation for UICollectionView. There are several "reload" methods:
reloadData()
reloadSections(_:)
reloadItems(at:)
If you just want to reload a single item, update your data source's data and then call reloadItems(at:) passing in the index path for the item.
Another option, if a cell is currently visible, is to use the cellForItem(at:) method to get a reference to an existing cell. Then you can directly access UI components of the cell as needed. You should also update your data model as needed so if the user scrolls and comes back, the cell will be rendered properly.
Most appropriate where you can update your custom view of a particular UIcollectionViewcell is reloadItemsAtIndexPaths.
You would be handling a particular item than whole collectionview with reloadData.
You can handle it via notifications or some call backs in your code where you can make decision when to update which cell.
Hope it will help you.

how to create refresh button in UITableView

I want to create one application that read many data from json and show them in tableview.
I want to create one button that when to click on it this page for a second time to be refresh and take data from json (check json again and if this json changed tableview also changed)
I dont know how create this function that refresh this page and run code at first.
please tell me about it.
[self.tableView reloadData]
to load more data from webserver in to table
Put a button in header of section. I think that is the best place. In target method of that button call json and download all data. then call [self.tableView reloadData]. It will call all table methods like number of row , sections, cellForRow.
Why don't you use the Default RefreshControl provided in iPhoneSDK.
A UIRefreshControl object provides a standard control that can be used to initiate the refreshing of a table view’s contents. You link a refresh control to a table through an associated table view controller object. The table view controller handles the work of adding the control to the table’s visual appearance and managing the display of that control in response to appropriate user gestures.
Check this to learn about its implementation : Working with UIRefreshControl
You can place a UIToolBar above the tableview. In that you can have a barbutton, to which you could give an action to fetch the data again. Once the data fetch is done, call
[self.tableview reloadData];

How to update the UITableViewDataSource when inserting new sections or deleting sections on UITableView?

I've a UITableViewDataSource which maintains sections of data items which will be presented by an UITableView instance. The table view is editable, allowing insertion and deletion of rows and sections, and all changes on the view should be written back to the data source. After reading through the Apple documents, I can deal with insertion and deletion on rows by sending message tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath: to the data source.
But, however, I can't figure out what is the standard way to feedback the changes on sections to the data source. Please kindly help.
The delegate method tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath: is called by the table view to tell you what the user has done (what they have added / removed). It is then the responsibility of your code to make the appropriate changes to your Model and reload the table view.
The simplest way to reload is to call reloadData, and you also have more specific options for reloading / inserting / removing individual rows or sections - this is all from a UI perspective and the table view requires that you have updated your Model before you call any of these methods or the table view will throw an exception.

numberOfSectionsInTableView is requested in/after viewDidLoad ONLY if tableview is empty

A simple tableviewController, empty. A modal that can be launched from a button. No data in the data source for the tableview, and no rows displayed.
I open the modal, use it to add an item, and return to the tableview controller. The tableview updates itself automatically, and the new row is displayed.
I add a second item. The table view does NOT update automatically.
I can tell by logging inside numberOfSectionsInTableView that even if I go to add the first item and cancel, the tableview refreshes - it asks for the number of sections, rows, and the cell to display (if there is one). But not if there is one pre-existing row in the table.
I've scoured my code but can't find anything that would cause the tableview to know when the first item is added, but none afterwards.
Any ideas?
EDIT - I have further narrowed my issue so will close this shortly and have posted a more specific question at Why does an empty tableView check the number of sections but a non-empty one does not?
from Apple's documentation:
UITableView overrides the layoutSubviews method of UIView so that it
calls reloadData only when you create a new instance of UITableView or
when you assign a new data source.
maybe you are setting data source of table view after showing that modal? So at the second time data source does not changes and tableView does not update.
another key (I'm not sure about that) may be the showing of the modal first time. The method -addSubview for modal is causing -layoutSubviews.

Updating a UITableView's data

In my application, I have a UITableView with a few rows (let's call it TV1), now, at the bottom of these rows is a row that drills down into another (TV2). This new TV2 asks you which type of data you would like to add to the first view. Then, when the user selects which kind, they're brought to another view, in which they fill in some fields, the data is saved, and they're sent back to TV1, however, the data they entered, isn't loaded and I'm not really sure how to do this. Any ideas?
Maybe you did this already, but how about using [TV1 reloadData];? This forces the entire table to reload, yet there are also more specific methods for reloading just the cells that have been altered. See also the documentation: UITableView
Reload your table view by calling [self.tableView reloadData] in the viewcontroller's viewWillAppear: method. It will be called when the user switches back to your view. Right before it is actually put on screen.

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