iOS search bar not showing results

Question

*Update: This actually works, the style for my custom cell hasn\'t come across and so the cell looks blank. How then do I get the searchResultsTableView to use my

Answer 1

Below line in viewdidload should do the trick

self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView.rowHeight = self.tableView.rowHeight

Answer 2

Agree with @rdelmar.

BUT There is a kind of tricky behavior in TableView, if you change the code in

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    ....
    InviteTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    ....
}

to

InviteTableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];

if added the prefix "self." your code should works fine.

and

if ( cell == nil )
 {
    cell = [[InviteTableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
 }

is unnecessary. it will just create a standard "Subtitle Cell" for you that seems not you want, just remove them.

Answer 3

If you want to use the same cell for your main table and the search results table, you should make the cell in a xib (or you could do it entirely in code). In viewDidLoad, register the nib for both table views,

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    [self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView registerNib:[UINib nibWithNibName:@"InviteTableViewCell" bundle:nil] forCellReuseIdentifier:@"InviteCell"];
    [self.tableView registerNib:[UINib nibWithNibName:@"InviteTableViewCell" bundle:nil] forCellReuseIdentifier:@"inviteCell"];
}

In cellForRowAtIndexPath, you can do something like this,

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    InviteTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"InviteCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
    MyUser *person = ([tableView isEqual:self.tableView])? self.inviteContactsArray[indexPath.row] : self.filteredContactArray[indexPath row];
    cell.nameLabel.text = person.fullName;
    cell.emailLabel.text = person.email;
    return cell;
}

If you've already setup your cell in the storyboard, you can copy and paste it into an empty xib file, so you don't have to set it up all over again. You can delete the cell from your storyboard table view since you will be getting the cell from the xib file instead.