Question

I am getting this error when trying to delete a row out of a UITableView. If I delete the last row in the tableview is does not error out and everything works fine but any other row throws an exception. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here? Any help would be much appreciated!

Error:

‘Invalid update: invalid number of rows in section 1. The number of rows contained in an existing section after the update (2) must be equal to the number of rows contained in that section before the update (2), plus or minus the number of rows inserted or deleted from that section (0 inserted, 1 deleted) and plus or minus the number of rows moved into or out of that section (0 moved in, 0 moved out).’

Code

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    //1. clear existing URL's
    NSURL *urlToDelete = nil;

    //2. If row is deleted, remove it from the list.
    if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete) {
        NSInteger row = [indexPath row];
        urlToDelete = [documentURLs objectAtIndex:row];
        //[documentURLs removeObjectAtIndex:row];      
    }
    //3. update the tableview on the fly without reloading the data
    [tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath]
                     withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];

    //4. get the location of the files
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *pathToDocumentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];

    //5.setup file manager
    NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
    NSError *error;
    BOOL fileExists = [fileManager fileExistsAtPath:pathToDocumentsDirectory];
    NSLog(@"Path to file: %@", pathToDocumentsDirectory);        
    NSLog(@"File exists: %d", fileExists);
    NSLog(@"Is deletable file at path: %d", [fileManager isDeletableFileAtPath:pathToDocumentsDirectory]);

    //6. remove if matches
    if (urlToDelete) {
        BOOL success = [fileManager removeItemAtURL:urlToDelete error:&error];
        if (!success) NSLog(@"Error: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
    }
}

Answer 1

You have to udpate the table in three stages.

1) Deal with your model

[documentURLs removeObjectAtIndex:row];

2) Deal with your table’s animation

[tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];

3) Deal with your file update (maybe it could be done before because you could have error on file deletion)

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

   NSURL *urlToDelete = nil;

   if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete) {
       NSInteger row = [indexPath row];
       urlToDelete = [documentURLs objectAtIndex:row];
       [documentURLs removeObjectAtIndex:row]; // you need to update your model

       [tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath]    withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];

       // do stuff to update the file here
    }
}

or

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    NSURL *urlToDelete = nil;

    if(editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete) {
        NSInteger row = [indexPath row];
        urlToDelete = [documentURLs objectAtIndex:row];

        // do stuff to update the file here...

        if(success)
        {
            [documentURLs removeObjectAtIndex:row]; // you need to update your model

            [tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath]    withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
        }
   }
}

Note. You have to pay attention if you remove the item from your model and the model count is eqaul to 0. In that case you have to remove the entire section.

Hope it helps.

P.S. check the code because I’ve written without XCode