Custom UITableViewCell with Progress Bar download update

ios, objective-c, uitableview

Solution

It's very bad practise to call method `tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:`directly, becuase the cell may not exist at the same moment and it may be a cause of the bug you have.

Basically you should do this in another way: add an array of double:

double progressValues[30]; // 30 is the count of rows on your tableView, you can set the size dynamically

and use it like this:

- (void)URLSession:(NSURLSession *)session downloadTask:(NSURLSessionDownloadTask *)downloadTask didWriteData:(int64_t)bytesWritten 
totalBytesWritten:(int64_t)totalBytesWritten totalBytesExpectedToWrite:
(int64_t)totalBytesExpectedToWrite
{
  dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
  NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0];
  OFPTableCell *cell = (OFPTableCell*)[self tableView:self.tableViewCache    cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
  progressValues[indexPath.row] = (double)totalBytesWritten /  (double)totalBytesExpectedToWrite;
  [self.tableViewCache reloadData];
});
}

and in the dataSource method just add this string:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    //... your code...
    cell.progressView.progress = progressValues[indexPath.row];
    // ...
    return cell;
}

Problem

I am trying to update a each table cell with progress bar loading, but I am stuck. I created a custom cell for a table view with these properties: ``` @interface OFPTableCell : UITableViewCell @property (nonatomic, weak) IBOutlet UILabel *textLabel; @property (nonatomic, weak) IBOutlet UILabel *detailTextLabel; @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *imageView; @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIProgressView *progressView; @end; ``` and after just @synthesize them, now i have in each table cell a progress bar as expected. The problem is that when i try to update even 1 st cell with a loading progress bar it just do nothing or its set 0 or full progress bar. Note that the download process is working fine. Bellow you may find the code where i try to update the progress bar: ``` - (void)URLSession:(NSURLSession *)session downloadTask:(NSURLSessionDownloadTask *)downloadTask didWriteData:(int64_t)bytesWritten totalBytesWritten:(int64_t)totalBytesWritten totalBytesExpectedToWrite: (int64_t)totalBytesExpectedToWrite { dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0]; OFPTableCell *cell = (OFPTableCell*)[self tableView:self.tableViewCache cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]; cell.progressView.progress=(double)totalBytesWritten / (double)totalBytesExpectedToWrite; }); } ``` Below is the method cellForRowAtIndexPath : ``` - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { OFPTableCell *cell = [self.tableViewCache dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Cell"]; OFPVideoDetails *vd = [someArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]; cell.textLabel.text=vd1; cell.detailTextLabel.text=vd2; CGSize size = {65,53}; cell.imageView.image =[self imageWithImage:[UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:vd.imageUrl] scaledToSize:size]; cell.delegate = self; return cell; } ```

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