Question

I’ve got a UITableViewDataSource that I’m using for two different UITableViews. In one of the table views, I want to enable swipe-to-delete, so I’ve implemented tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath, and it works as expected. However, in another table, I want to disable that feature.

I’ve got it working by making two UITableViewDataSource classes, one subclassing the other, and I only implement tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath in the subclass. I call them RecipientModel and RecipientModelEditable.

I’m wondering if there’s a better way.

Answer 1

I think you mean something like this:

- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)aTableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    if (self.isEditable) {
        return UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete;
    }
    return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
}

and then in the commitEditingStyle, don’t do anything if its not editable