How to get textFields from static cells in UITableViewController? Swift - swift

Question

My View hierarchy looks like this:
ElevethViewController of type UIViewController
Container View
ManagedTableEleventhViewController of type UITableViewController embedded in Container View
ManagedTableEleventhViewController contains 4 static cells containing 1 textField each and one empty static cell.
class ManagedTableEleventhViewController: UITableViewController,UITextFieldDelegate {
var hasText:Bool!
#IBOutlet weak var fullName: UITextField!
#IBOutlet weak var flatNumber: UITextField!
#IBOutlet weak var streetAddress: UITextField!
#IBOutlet weak var phoneNumber: UITextField!
//checkValue takes ELViewController parameter so that segue can be
//performed when button is touched in EleventhViewController
func checkValue(ELViewController:EleventhViewController) {
//loop through the textfields and check if they have text
for case let textField as UITextField in viewController.view.subviews {
//print is not executed meaning loop is not performed
print("some text")
if textField.text == "" {
self.hasText = false
textField.layer.borderColor = UIColor.red.cgColor
} else {
print("true value in for loop")
self.hasText = true
performSegue(withIdentifier: "elevethToTwelveth", sender: ELViewController)
}
}//end of for loop
}
class EleventhViewController: UIViewController {
var nextButtonOutlet:UIButton!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
//create button programmatically
var button = UIButton(type: UIButtonType.custom) as UIButton
button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 637, width: 375, height: 50))
button.titleLabel?.textColor = UIColor.white
button.backgroundColor = UIColor(colorLiteralRed: 117/255, green: 232/255, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
button.setTitle("Next", for: .normal)
button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(EleventhViewController.nextButton), for: .touchUpInside)
self.view.addSubview(button)
self.nextButtonOutlet = button
}
func nextButton(sender: UIButton) {
//create instance of tableView
let managedTable = ManagedTableEleventhViewController()
managedTable.checkValue(viewController: self)
} //end of EleventhViewController class

Answer 1

Well first I can give you an answer that might satisfy you and fix your loop but I would recommend not doing it that way to alter your textfields. I would recommend doing it in cellForRow even though they may be static cells. Depending on your view setup in the cells it would look like this if the textfield is added directly to the cells and not to another view.
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
print("Testing")
for cell in tableView.visibleCells{
for sub in cell.contentView.subviews{
if sub is UITextField{
print("Textfield")
}
}
}
}

Answer 2

Just to follow up, if this is for validation you should'nt be only checking "" case, because you allow " ", " " etc. Use isEmpty, it should work better, if you only want to check existence of text.
Also you dont have to extract fields from subviews as you already have properties, i'm not sure if you have any other reason for this logic though.
Edit. Ooops, i just noticed your checking for textfields in a controller which does not have any visible fields, so normally your check never passes.
I think you should'nt even validate textfields for one class in another class, unless its a class handling textfield validation in general.
In EleventhViewController you have no textfields, so nothing to validate.