Compatibility with UISearchController [Xcode 6 beta 5]

[hokster7]

In iOS 8, UISearchDisplayController has been deprecated in favour of using UISearchController instead.

The interface of UISearchController works quite differently: it takes a result view, as well as a so called id <UISearchResultsUpdating> delegate to let the user have a chance of updating the UI.

- (void)updateSearchResultsForSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController;

I thought TLTableViewController's automatic table updates would provide a perfect drop-in implementation of this method. All one needs to do is update the data model:

- (void)updateSearchResultsForSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController {
    NSString *searchText = searchController.searchBar.text;

    // ... Create a new array-based data model based on the search text.
    TLIndexPathDataModel *dataModel = f(searchText);
    self.indexPathController.dataModel = dataModel;  // implicitly calls `performUpdates... on table view`
}

However, surprisingly, this does not actually work. The UI of the table view doesn't get updated with the latest rows.

I'm using ignoreDataModelUpdates = YES and an explicit [tableView reloadData] to workaround this for the time being.

[wtmoose]

If you provide a sample project, I'll take a look.

Tim

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On Aug 9, 2014, at 3:57 AM, Hok Shun Poon notifications@github.com wrote:

In iOS 8, UISearchDisplayController has been deprecated in favour of using UISearchController instead.

The interface of UISearchController works quite differently: it takes a result view, as well as a so called id delegate to let the user have a chance of updating the UI.

• (void)updateSearchResultsForSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController;
  I thought TLTableViewController would be a perfect drop-in implementation of this method:

(void)updateSearchResultsForSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController {
NSString *searchText = searchController.searchBar.text;

// ... Create a new array-based data model based on the search text.
TLIndexPathDataModel *dataModel = f(searchText);
self.indexPathController.dataModel = dataModel; // implicitly calls performUpdates... on table view
}

However, surprisingly, this does not actually work. The UI of the table view doesn't get updated with the latest rows.

I'm using ignoreDataModelUpdates = YES and an explicit [tableView reloadData] to workaround this for the time being.

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