Updates Labels in Swift when using popoverController - label

Question

I have a question about swift,
I made a popover controller in a UIViewController,which display a list of books
and when the user click on one of the books, the label on the viewController should be updated with the name of the selected book.
But in my case when I select a name of a book, the label does not update
here is the code :
// View Controller
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController,UIPopoverControllerDelegate {
var popoverController : UIPopoverController? = nil
#IBOutlet var bookName : UILabel
var BookNameString : String?{
didSet{
configureView()
}
}
func configureView() {
// Update the user interface for the detail item.
if let detail = self.BookNameString {
if let label = bookName {
label.text = detail
}
}
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}
#IBAction func Click(sender : UIButton) {
var tableView:TableViewController = TableViewController(style: UITableViewStyle.Plain)
var popoverContent:UINavigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: tableView)
self.popoverController = UIPopoverController(contentViewController: popoverContent)
self.popoverController!.delegate = self
self.popoverController!.presentPopoverFromRect(sender.frame, inView: self.view, permittedArrowDirections: UIPopoverArrowDirection.Any, animated: true)
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
}
and here is the code of the TableViewController when a row is selected:
// TableViewController
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView!, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath!){
var storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
var details = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("ViewController") as ViewController
var keyString = bookSectionKeys[indexPath.section]
var bookValues = book.booksLetters[keyString]!
var selectedBookString = bookValues[indexPath.row]
var selectedBookValues = book.bookDictionary[selectedBookString]!
details.BookNameString = selectedBookString
}

Answer 1

I was able to solve this problem a few weeks ago and I want to share the solution with you :)
I solve it using protocols.
OK Here what I did in details:
First I created a protocol in the view that I want it to display inside the popover and I named the protocol "DismissPopoverDelegate"
protocol DismissPopoverDelegate{
func didSelectBook(SelectedBook:String)
}
Then I declared a variable of type DismissPopoverDelegate and name it "delegate"
var delegate: DismissPopoverDelegate?
Then in the didSelectRowAtIndexMethod:
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView!, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath!){
var keyString = bookSectionKeys[indexPath.section]
var bookValues = book.booksLetters[keyString]!
var selectedBookString = bookValues[indexPath.row]
delegate?.didSelectBook(selectedBookString)
}
After that inside the View that contains the popover (View Controller), I set the delegate of the view:
class ViewController: UIViewController, DismissPopOverDelegate, UIPopoverControllerDelegate{
Then to make the view confirm to the protocol DismissPopOverDelegate, I implement the method "didSelectBook" Inside the view:
func didSelectBook(SelectedBook:String){
popoverController!.dismissPopoverAnimated(true) // This is Optional
bookName.text = SelectedBook // Make the label text equal to the selected book From the table
}
Finally, I set the delegate to the tableView to View Controller
tableView.delegate = self
That's it :)
Here is the full code of the viewController that contains the popover
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, DismissPopOverDelegate, UIPopoverControllerDelegate{
#IBOutlet var booksbarButton : UIBarButtonItem
#IBOutlet var bookName : UILabel
var popoverController : UIPopoverController? = nil
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
}
#IBAction func showTableView(sender : UIBarButtonItem) {
var tableView:TableViewController = TableViewController(style: UITableViewStyle.Plain)
tableView.delegate = self
var popoverContent:UINavigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: tableView)
self.popoverController = UIPopoverController(contentViewController: popoverContent)
popoverController!.delegate = self
self.popoverController!.presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem(booksbarButton, permittedArrowDirections: UIPopoverArrowDirection.Any, animated: true)
}
func didSelectBook(SelectedBook:String){
popoverController!.dismissPopoverAnimated(true)
bookName.text = SelectedBook
}
}