Create menu dynamically but using same view controller [PagingMenuController]

Question

I am trying to create ButtonBar based paging menu but it will be dynamic because the data (title for no. of menu) created will come from the server. Unfortunately, there is

Answer 1

My solution is to make a synchronous call to the server to fetch the data that i need to populate the menu. It is possible that there is an asynchronous solution but i can't quite figure it out, since my app depends on completely on the menu items.

   fileprivate func parseMenuItems() {
    self.menuItems = [MenuObject]()
    let url = URL(string: MENU_URL)
    do {
        let data = try Data(contentsOf: url!)
        let json = JSON(data: data)
        for (_, subJson) in json["items"] {
            guard let name = subJson["name"].string else {return}
            guard let url = subJson["url"].string else {return}
            let menuItem = MenuObject(name: name, url: url)
            self.menuItems.append(menuItem)
        }
    } catch {
        print(error)
    }
}

For parsing I am using SwiftyJson, but that is irrelevant here.

This function (parseMenuItems()) is called before super.viewDidLoad().

Next step is to populate view controllers with menuItems data:

override func viewControllers(for pagerTabStripController: PagerTabStripViewController) -> [UIViewController] {
    var children = [UIViewController]()

    for menuItem in menuItems! {
         let child = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "TestViewController") as! TestViewController
            child.name = menuItem.name
            child.url = menuItem.url

            children.append(child)
        }
    }
    return children

}

Hope it helps :)