UITableViewCell from IB Shows Value as NULL - iphone

Question

The following is being used as the code to put a tableviewcell from a nib file into the tableview. I have taken the tableviewcell in the same nib as that of the tableview. I have tried initializing the cell in the viewdidload also but to no go.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"identifier";
NSLog(#"the cellidentifier is %#", CellIdentifier);
bookmarksTableViewCell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
NSLog(#"the cell is %#", bookmarksTableViewCell);
return bookmarksTableViewCell;
}
The error that I get is
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'UITableView dataSource must return a cell from tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:'
I have checked connections in the IB and rewired them too but the result comes up the same. When I try NSLog'ing the cell, it comes as null.

Answer 1

You need to do it like so
static NSString *CellIdenetifier = #"Cell";
BookMarksTableViewCell *cell = (BookMarksTableViewCell*) [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if(cell == nil){
cell = [[BookMarksTableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubTitle reuseIdentifer:CellIdentifier];
}
Im not sure if you need that if but I thought I include it.

Answer 2

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"identifier";
NSLog(#"the cellidentifier is %#", CellIdentifier);
bookmarksTableViewCell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (bookmarksTableViewCell == nil){
//allocate your cell here
}
return bookmarksTableViewCell;

Answer 3

Of course it is null.
If a table view needs to display more cells than available in its queue, it returns nil from
dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:
to ask the data source for creating a new cell until the sufficient amount of cells are allocated. Check for NULL:
bookmarksTableViewCell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
if (bookmarksTableViewCell == NULL)
bookmarksTableViewCell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStylePlain reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier] autorelease];
return cell;
Ah, ps.: forget about Interface Builder.