I faced a situation in my app where I wanted to access to UITableView datasource from a UITableViewCell. Specifically I implemented the same behavior of left green (+) button in the label contained in the cell, so if you click on it the editing action “UITableViewCellEditingStyleInsert” will be committed.
Since a cell is contained in a table we can easily access to it using self.superview (cast is required because superview returns a basic UIView *), then once we are sure that the table has a valid dataSource, we can manually invoke the selector tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath:. In order to pass the proper indexPath dynamically we rely on table method indexPathForCell: (we don’t know in which cell we are but table does!).
The complete code snippet is the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | UITableView *table = (UITableView *)self.superview; SEL sel = @selector(tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath:); if ([table isKindOfClass:[UITableView class]] && [table.dataSource respondsToSelector:sel]) { [table.dataSource tableView:table commitEditingStyle:UITableViewCellEditingStyleInsert forRowAtIndexPath:[table indexPathForCell:self]]; } |
