Class Has No Initializers Swift

Question

I have a problem with Swift class. I have a swift file for UITableViewController class and UITableViewCell class. My problem is the UITableViewCell class, and outlets. This class has an error Class "HomeCell" has no initializers, and I don't understand this problem.

Thanks for your responses.

import Foundation
import UIKit

class HomeTable: UITableViewController, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate {

    @IBOutlet var tableViex: UITableView!

    var items: [(String, String, String)] = [
        ("Test", "123", "1.jpeg"),
        ("Test2", "236", "2.jpeg"),
        ("Test3", "678", "3.jpeg")
    ]

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        var nib = UINib(nibName: "HomeCell", bundle: nil)
        tableView.registerNib(nib, forCellReuseIdentifier: "bookCell")
    }

    // Number row
    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return self.items.count
    }

    // Style Cell
    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

        var cell:UITableViewCell = self.tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("bookCell") as UITableViewCell

        // Style here

        return cell

    }

    // Select row
    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
        // Select
    }

}

// PROBLEM HERE
class HomeCell : UITableViewCell {

    @IBOutlet var imgBook: UIImageView
    @IBOutlet var titleBook: UILabel
    @IBOutlet var pageBook: UILabel

    func loadItem(#title: String, page: String, image:String) {
        titleBook.text = title
        pageBook.text = page
        imgBook.image = UIImage(named: image)
    }

}

Accepted Answer

You have to use implicitly unwrapped optionals so that Swift can cope with circular dependencies (parent <-> child of the UI components in this case) during the initialization phase.

@IBOutlet var imgBook: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet var titleBook: UILabel!
@IBOutlet var pageBook: UILabel!

Read this doc, they explain it all nicely.

Answer 2

Quick fix - make sure all variables which do not get initialized when they are created (eg var num : Int? vs var num = 5) have either a ? or !.

Long answer (reccomended) - read the doc as per mprivat suggests...

Answer 3

_{My answer addresses the error in general and not the exact code of the OP. No answer mentioned this note so I just thought I add it.}

The code below would also generate the same error:

class Actor {
    let agent : String? // BAD! // Its value is set to nil, and will always be nil and that's stupid so Xcode is saying not-accepted.  
    // Technically speaking you have a way around it🤓, you can help the compiler and enforce your value as a constant. See Option3
}

Others mentioned that Either you create initializers or you make them optional types, using ! or ? which is correct. However if you have an optional member/property, that optional should be mutable ie var. If you make a let then it would never be able to get out of its nil state. That's bad!

So the correct way of writing it is:

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Option1

class Actor {
    var agent : String? // It's defaulted to `nil`, but also has a chance so it later can be set to something different || GOOD!
}

Or you can write it as:

Class Has No Initializers Swift

7 Answers

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Option1

Elena Rostova