How do I set up a simple delegate to communicate between two view controllers

Question

I have two UITableViewControllers and need to pass the value from the child view controller to the parent using a delegate  I know what delegates are and just wanted to see a simple to follow example   Thank You

User · Answer

This below code just show the very basic use of delegate concept .. you name the variable and class as per your requirement.

First you need to declare a protocol:

Let's call it MyFirstControllerDelegate.h

@protocol MyFirstControllerDelegate
- (void) FunctionOne: (MyDataOne*) dataOne;
- (void) FunctionTwo: (MyDatatwo*) dataTwo;
@end

Import MyFirstControllerDelegate.h file and confirm your FirstController with protocol MyFirstControllerDelegate

#import "MyFirstControllerDelegate.h"

@interface FirstController : UIViewController<MyFirstControllerDelegate>
{

}

@end

In the implementation file, you need to implement both functions of protocol:

@implementation FirstController 


    - (void) FunctionOne: (MyDataOne*) dataOne
      {
          //Put your finction code here
      }
    - (void) FunctionTwo: (MyDatatwo*) dataTwo
      {
          //Put your finction code here
      }

     //Call below function from your code
    -(void) CreateSecondController
     {
             SecondController *mySecondController = [SecondController alloc] initWithSomeData:.];
           //..... push second controller into navigation stack 
            mySecondController.delegate = self ;
            [mySecondController release];
     }

@end

in your SecondController:

@interface SecondController:<UIViewController>
{
   id <MyFirstControllerDelegate> delegate;
}

@property (nonatomic,assign)  id <MyFirstControllerDelegate> delegate;

@end

In the implementation file of SecondController.

@implementation SecondController

@synthesize delegate;
//Call below two function on self.
-(void) SendOneDataToFirstController
{
   [delegate FunctionOne:myDataOne];
}
-(void) SendSecondDataToFirstController
{
   [delegate FunctionTwo:myDataSecond];
}

@end

Here is the wiki article on delegate.

User · Answer

Following solution is very basic and simple approach to send data from VC2 to VC1 using  delegate     PS  This solution is made in Xcode 9 X and Swift 4  Declared a protocol and created a delegate var into ViewControllerB      import UIKit        Declare the Protocol into your SecondVC     protocol DataDelegate           func sendData data   String             class ViewControllerB   UIViewController          Declare the delegate property in your SecondVC         var delegate   DataDelegate          var data   String    Send data to ViewControllerA           override func viewDidLoad                 super viewDidLoad                       IBAction func btnSendDataPushed   sender  UIButton                       Call the delegate method from SecondVC                 self delegate  sendData data self data                  dismiss animated  true  completion  nil                            ViewControllerA confirms the protocol and expected to receive data via delegate method sendData      import UIKit            Conform the  DataDelegate protocol in ViewControllerA         class ViewControllerA   UIViewController   DataDelegate            IBOutlet weak var dataLabel  UILabel           override func viewDidLoad                 super viewDidLoad                       IBAction func presentToChild   sender  UIButton                let childVC    UIStoryboard name   Main   bundle  nil  instantiateViewController withIdentifier  ViewControllerB   as  ViewControllerB               Registered delegate             childVC delegate   self             self present childVC  animated  true  completion  nil                        Implement the delegate method in ViewControllerA         func sendData data   String                if data                         self dataLabel text   data

User · Answer

You need to use delegates and protocols  Here is a site with an example http   iosdevelopertips com objective-c the-basics-of-protocols-and-delegates html

User · Answer

Simple example     Let s say the child view controller has a UISlider and we want to pass the value of the slider back to the parent via a delegate   In the child view controller s header file  declare the delegate type and its methods   ChildViewController h   import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt      1  Forward declaration of ChildViewControllerDelegate - this just declares    that a ChildViewControllerDelegate type exists so that we can use it    later   protocol ChildViewControllerDelegate      2  Declaration of the view controller class  as usual  interface ChildViewController   UIViewController     Delegate properties should always be weak references    See http   stackoverflow com a 4796131 263871 for the rationale     Tip  If you re not using ARC  use  assign  instead of  weak    property  nonatomic  weak  id lt ChildViewControllerDelegate gt  delegate      A simple IBAction method that I ll associate with a close button in    the UI  We ll call the delegate s childViewController didChooseValue      method inside this handler  -  IBAction handleCloseButton  id sender    end     3  Definition of the delegate s interface  protocol ChildViewControllerDelegate  lt NSObject gt   -  void childViewController  ChildViewController  viewController               didChooseValue  CGFloat value    end   In the child view controller s implementation  call the delegate methods as required   ChildViewController m   import  ChildViewController h    implementation ChildViewController  -  void handleCloseButton  id sender          Xcode will complain if we access a weak property more than         once here  since it could in theory be nilled between accesses        leading to unpredictable results  So we ll start by taking        a local  strong reference to the delegate      id lt ChildViewControllerDelegate gt  strongDelegate   self delegate          Our delegate method is optional  so we should         check that the delegate implements it     if   strongDelegate respondsToSelector  selector childViewController didChooseValue                strongDelegate childViewController self didChooseValue self slider value             end   In the parent view controller s header file  declare that it implements the ChildViewControllerDelegate protocol   RootViewController h   import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt   import  ChildViewController h    interface RootViewController   UITableViewController  lt ChildViewControllerDelegate gt    end   In the parent view controller s implementation  implement the delegate methods appropriately   RootViewController m   import  RootViewController h    implementation RootViewController  -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       ChildViewController  detailViewController     ChildViewController alloc  init          Assign self as the delegate for the child view controller     detailViewController delegate   self       self navigationController pushViewController detailViewController animated YES         Implement the delegate methods for ChildViewControllerDelegate -  void childViewController  ChildViewController   viewController didChooseValue  CGFloat value           Do something with value               then dismiss the child view controller      self navigationController popViewControllerAnimated YES       end   Hope this helps

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