Question

Scenario:

I have two UITableViewCells containing a UITextField property and UITextView property respectively. Obviously both of these properties have properties in common, such as ‘text’ and ‘textColor’

Objective:

Indiscriminately assign a string to the UITextField/UITextView’s text property without raising compiler warnings. Can it be done?

Here’s an example of what I’m doing:

Currently I do this to avoid compiler warnings:

UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
UITextField *textField;
UITextView *textView;
switch (indexPath.section) {
    case SectionDescription:
        textField = (UITextField *)[(TextFieldCell *)cell contents];
        textField.text = self.plan.description;
        break;

    case SectionNotes:
        textView = (UITextView *)[(TextViewCell *)cell contents];
        textView.text = self.plan.notes;
        break;
}

But I’d like to do something closer to this without the compiler warnings:

NSString *contents = [self getContents];

UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
UIView *textView = (?? *)[(?? *)cell contents];
textView.text = contents;

Is there a standard way to do this? I know if both objects conformed to a common protocol I could do something like “UIView *textView = [cell contents];” Is there an answer to this question?

Answer 1

Try using [(id)textView setText:contents].