Swift: programmatically navigate to ViewController and pass data
I recently started learning fast and it has been very good so far. I am currently having a problem with passing data between view controllers. I was able to figure out how to programmatically navigate between two view controllers using a navigation controller. The only problem is that I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to pass the three lines entered by the user (for the json api) to the next view.
Here is my current attempt. Any help is greatly appreciated!
ViewController:
/* Get the status code of the connection attempt */
func connection(connection:NSURLConnection, didReceiveResponse response: NSURLResponse){
let status = (response as! NSHTTPURLResponse).statusCode
//println("status code is \(status)")
if(status == 200){
var next = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SecondViewController") as! SecondViewController
self.presentViewController(next, animated: false, completion: nil)
}
else{
RKDropdownAlert.title("Error", message:"Please enter valid credentials.", backgroundColor:UIColor.redColor(), textColor:UIColor.whiteColor(), time:3)
drawErrorBorder(usernameField);
usernameField.text = "";
drawErrorBorder(passwordField);
passwordField.text = "";
}
}
override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject!) {
let navigationController = segue.destinationViewController as! UINavigationController
let newProjectVC = navigationController.topViewController as! SecondViewController
newProjectVC.ip = ipAddressField.text
newProjectVC.username = usernameField.text
newProjectVC.password = passwordField.text
}
SecondViewController:
import UIKit
class SecondViewController: UIViewController {
var ip:NSString!
var username:NSString!
var password:NSString!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
println("\(ip):\(username):\(password)")
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
}
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The method prepareForSegue
is called when your application's storyboard performs a segue (a connection that you create in storyboards using Interface Builder). In the code above, although you yourself represent the controller with presentViewController
. In this scenario, it prepareForSegue
does not start. You can do the setup right before the controller view:
let next = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SecondViewController") as! SecondViewController
next.ip = ipAddressField.text
next.username = usernameField.text
next.password = passwordField.text
self.presentViewController(next, animated: false, completion: nil)
More on segue here
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Updated syntax for Swift 3:
let next = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "SecondViewController") as? SecondViewController
next.ip = ipAddressField.text
next.username = usernameField.text
next.password = passwordField.text
self.present(next, animated: true, completion: nil)
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