UITableViewController won't customize - iphone

Question

I am trying to customize a class using Parse called PFQueryTableViewController. It doesn't seem to want to customize my cells, though:
- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder {
self = [super initWithClassName:#"UserPhoto"];
self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
if (self) {
// Custom the table
// The className to query on
self.parseClassName = #"UserPhoto";
// The key of the PFObject to display in the label of the default cell style
self.textKey = #"title";
// Whether the built-in pull-to-refresh is enabled
self.pullToRefreshEnabled = YES;
// Whether the built-in pagination is enabled
self.paginationEnabled = YES;
// The number of objects to show per page
self.objectsPerPage = 25;
}
return self;
}
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
[self.tableView registerNib:[UINib nibWithNibName:#"FeedCustomCell" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]] forCellReuseIdentifier:#"FeedCustom"];
}
#pragma mark - Parse
- (void)objectsDidLoad:(NSError *)error {
[super objectsDidLoad:error];
// This method is called every time objects are loaded from Parse via the PFQuery
}
- (void)objectsWillLoad {
[super objectsWillLoad];
// This method is called before a PFQuery is fired to get more objects
NSLog(#"Done");
}
// Override to customize what kind of query to perform on the class. The default is to query for
// all objects ordered by createdAt descending.
- (PFQuery *)queryForTable {
PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:self.parseClassName];
// If no objects are loaded in memory, we look to the cache first to fill the table
// and then subsequently do a query against the network.
if ([self.objects count] == 0) {
query.cachePolicy = kPFCachePolicyCacheThenNetwork;
}
[query orderByDescending:#"createdAt"];
NSLog(#"%#", query);
return query;
}
// Override to customize the look of a cell representing an object. The default is to display
// a UITableViewCellStyleDefault style cell with the label being the first key in the object.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath object:(PFObject *)object {
FeedCustomCell *cell = (FeedCustomCell * )[self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"FeedCustom" forIndexPath:indexPath];
// Configure the cell
cell.caption.text = [object objectForKey:#"title"];
cell.accessoryType =UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator;
return cell;
}
Any ideas? FeedCustomCell is simply a subclass for UITableViewCell that uses IB to add a label. TableView for my subclass of PFQueryTableViewController is also being created via IB.

Answer 1

You should do your customization in "viewDidLoad" instead of the init method, where the xib hasn't been loaded yet.

Answer 2

You are doing it wrong. You need to load cell from bundle using
[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"CustomCell" owner:self options:nil];
either in your cellForRowAtIndexPath or in your init and awake from nib method.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
FeedCustomCell *cell = (FeedCustomCell*)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"BDCustomCell"];
if (cell == nil) {
// Load the top-level objects from the custom cell XIB.
NSArray *topLevelObjects = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"FeedCustomCellXib" owner:self options:nil];
// Grab a pointer to the first object (presumably the custom cell, as that's all the XIB should contain).
cell = [topLevelObjects objectAtIndex:0];
}
return cell;
}