adding property to UITableView subclass - iphone

Question

i'm creating UITableViewCell subclass which need to hold 3 types of images: facebook twitter and linkedin. the thing is that i need to know which service the cell support at the moment so i have try to add a property to the class called service which is NSString.
this is how i am setting up my cell to ad it to the table:
static NSString *sCellIdentifier = #"sCell";
SocialTableViewCell *sCell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:sCellIdentifier];
sCell.service = #"service";
if (sCell == nil){
NSArray *topLevelObjects = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"ExampleView" owner:nil options:nil];
for(id currentObject in topLevelObjects)
{
if([currentObject isKindOfClass:[SocialTableViewCell class]])
{
sCell = (SocialTableViewCell *)currentObject;
break;
}
}
}
if (indexPath.row == 0) {
sCell.serviceImage.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"icon_Twitter.png"];
sCell.service = #"twitter";
return sCell;
}
i am trying to set the property like this :
sCell.service = #"twitter";
and when i am trying to read it from the awakeFromNib method in the SocialTableViewCell class i get null. what should i do to manage this?

Answer 1

The awakeFromNib method is called before you have set the service property.
You could use the setter method of the service property :
-(void) setService:(NSString *)service {
// Set the value to the internal iVar
_service = service;
// Here you can do what you want with the service value like
self.titleLabel.text = service;
}