I am using PFQueryTableViewController
as part of ParseUI to load a table of objects based on the currentUser's geolocation. I have seen several other (older) forum posts (like here) detailing that the queryForTable
function should return nil if a value like currentLocation:PFGeoPoint?
is nil. Then wait on the background process in viewDidLoad
to get the PFGeoPoint
and loadObjects()
, thus calling the queryForTable
function again.
I am seeing others say that Swift's ParseUI libraries may not have a queryForTable
function that allows nil returns.
var currentLocation:PFGeoPoint? = nil
override func viewDidLoad() {
if currentLocation == nil {
PFGeoPoint.geoPointForCurrentLocationInBackground {
(geoPoint: PFGeoPoint?, error: NSError?) -> Void in
if error == nil {
print("Got the user's current location!")
self.currentLocation = geoPoint
print("Reloading table using user's location")
self.loadObjects()
}
}
}
}
override func queryForTable() -> PFQuery {
if self.currentLocation != nil {
print("Generating query based on user's location!")
let query = PFQuery(className:self.parseClassName!)
query.whereKey("taskLocation", nearGeoPoint: self.currentLocation!, withinMiles: 50)
if(self.objects?.count == 0)
{
query.cachePolicy = PFCachePolicy.CacheThenNetwork
}
return query
}
print("User's current location is not known")
return nil
}
Obviously, this fails to build because the function is not (note the question mark):
override func queryForTable() -> PFQuery? {
...
}
My attempted workaround was to return PFQuery()
instead of nil, but I believe it returns after the viewDidLoad
self.loadObjects()
. The behavior I see is a momentary flash of a table with cell results, and then an empty table.
Here is a link to the Google Group discussion about this very issue, with Hector Ramos saying that it works with Objective-C but not Swift (...yet?). I'm running the latest ParseUI as of this posting (1.1.6).
Is there an option yet to do this in Swift? If not, when?
If this isn't an option, what are some workarounds people have tried successfully?