Description

Project-independent, block-based data source for UITableView, UICollectionView and NSFetchedResultsController. This project helps to make view controllers much lighter. It is possible to add more than one section and to provide another cell identifier for every section. This makes it possible to use different UITableViewCell subclasses in a single UITableView.

Usage

To run the example project; clone the repo, and run pod install from the Example directory first or just use the SHDataSources.xcworkspace file and build the SHDataSourceDemo scheme.

This project supports the following types of data sources:

• SHDataSource - immutable and mutable data source that offers add, insert, delete and reorder arbitrary items.
• SHEmptyDataSource - returns zero sections, zero rows and zero cells. Can be used while waiting for the download of items.

The intended use is as follows (see also the example included in the repository):

@interface MyCustomClass()
[...]
@property(nonatomic, strong)SHDataSource *dataSource;
[...]
@end

SHItemCollection *collection = [[SHItemCollection alloc] initWithItems:@[[UIColor redColor], [UIColor greenColor], [UIColor blueColor]] @"CELL_ID"];

self.dataSource = [SHDataSource dataSourceWithItemCollection:collection cellConfigurationHandler:^(id <SHDataSourcesCellDataHandler> cell, id item, NSIndexPath *indexPath) {
[cell setData:item];
}];

self.dataSource.editable = YES;
self.dataSource.draggingEnabled = YES;

self.tableView.dataSource = self.dataSource;

Installation

ToDo's

• use cocoa pods to include the lib in the example project
• extend the data source for the remaining data source methods of UITableView
• insert comments for all methods, classes and protocols
• reinclude support for UICollectionView
• implement data source for NSFetchedResultsController

License

SHDataSources is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.