Get notified when UITableView has finished asking for data?
ios, iphone, uitableview
Solution
This answer doesn't seem to be working anymore, due to some changes made to UITableView implementation since the answer was written. See this comment : Get notified when UITableView has finished asking for data?
I've been playing with this problem for a couple of days and think that subclassing `UITableView`'s `reloadData` is the best approach :
- (void)reloadData {
NSLog(@"BEGIN reloadData");
[super reloadData];
NSLog(@"END reloadData");
}
`reloadData` doesn't end before the table has finish reload its data. So, when the second `NSLog` is fired, the table view has actually finish asking for data.
I've subclassed `UITableView` to send methods to the delegate before and after `reloadData`. It works like a charm.
Problem
Is there some way to find out when a `UITableView` has finished asking for data from its data source? None of the `viewDidLoad`/`viewWillAppear`/`viewDidAppear` methods of the associated view controller (`UITableViewController`) are of use here, as they all fire too early. None of them (entirely understandably) guarantee that queries to the data source have finished for the time being (eg, until the view is scrolled). One workaround I have found is to call `reloadData` in `viewDidAppear`, since, when `reloadData` returns, the table view is guaranteed to have finished querying the data source as much as it needs to for the time being. However, this seems rather nasty, as I assume it is causing the data source to be asked for the same information twice (once automatically, and once because of the `reloadData` call) when it is first loaded. The reason I want to do this at all is that I want to preserve the scroll position of the `UITableView` - but right down to the pixel level, not just to the nearest row. When restoring the scroll position (using `scrollRectToVisible:animated:`), I need the table view to already have sufficient data in it, or else the `scrollRectToVisible:animated:` method call does nothing (which is what happens if you place the call on its own in any of `viewDidLoad`, `viewWillAppear` or `viewDidAppear`).