Setting property value of parent viewcontroller class from child viewcontroller?

Question

Does anyone know how to update a property value from the subview (child) view controller? I have a int property called statusid defined with gettor/settor in parent view controller. [self.view addSubview:detailsVC.view];

In the child subview, I trying calling [super statusid:updatedValue]; to update statusid to a new value, but this creates an error. How can i update statusid in the parent? Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Calling a method on super calls the superclass's implementation of a method, it does call the superview's/super view controller's implementation.

You either need to keep a reference to the parent from the child view controller and call the setStatusId: method on the parent, or create a delegate pattern between the two that will let the child's delegate (likely set to the parent) know that the status ID changed.

Answer 2

with "super" you access your base class, the one your current class has inherited from

to do what you've explained, you need to access a property of your parent view, which is rather complicated since this will most likely end with both classes trying to reference each other. thus you will most likely have to create a delegate pattern, looking somewhat like this

ParentView.h

@protocol IAmYourFatherAndMotherProtocol

@class ChildView;

@interface ParentView : UIViewController <IAmYourFatherAndMotherProtocol>
{
NSInteger statusID;
}

@property (nonatomic) NSInteger statusID;

@protocol IAmYourFatherAndMotherProtocol
@property (nonatomic) NSInteger statusID;
@end

@end

in ChildView.h

#import "ParentView.h"

@interface ChildView : UIViewController
{
  id<IAmYourFatherAndMotherProtocol> delegate;
}

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

when creating your ChildView in ParentView.m, you have to set "self" as delegate, eg:

ChildView *newChild = [[ChildView alloc] init];
newChild.delegate = self;

by doing so, you can access "statusID" of your ParentView in ChildView.m like this:

delegate.statusID = 1337;

hope this helps