Question

I’ve got a UISearchBar and a seperat UITableView. When the user types something in the SearchBar I call my API and then reload the TableView to display the new results. Everytime the TableView reloads the SearchBar loses focus. How can I prevent this?

I tried [_searchBar becomeFirstResponder]; but it didn’t help. Any other ideas?

Thanks for your help.

(Edit) Code I used to reload the data:

[self.fetchedResultsController updateWithObjectList:_newList removeMissing:YES];

- (void)updateWithObjectList:(NSArray *)objectList removeMissing:(BOOL)removeMissing {
    if (removeMissing) {
        [self removeObjectList:[_objects allValues]];
    }
    [self addObjectList:objectList];
}

Answer 1

It looks like you are dealing with a hand built (non CoreData) array for the TablevView datasource. If that is the case, why are you using a fetchedResultsController?

Why not rebuild the array (datasource) for the TableView and then just call

[self.myTableView reloadData];

(substitute whatever you have called your TableView for myTableView). If you need a complete example of how to do this, let me know.