Using iOS6:
I would like to retrieve the text entered by a user into a UITextField associated with the UIAlertView. I am aware that I could achieve the desired result with a delegate however I am curious about solving this issue with a callback function as I believe this may be an interesting pattern. I began by examining a common pattern for category extension of the UIAlertView class. Code below. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface UIAlertView (Block)
- (id)initWithTitle:(NSString *)title message:(NSString *)message completion:(void (^)(BOOL cancelled, NSInteger buttonIndex, UITextField *textField))completion cancelButtonTitle:(NSString *)cancelButtonTitle otherButtonTitles:(NSString *)otherButtonTitles, ... NS_REQUIRES_NIL_TERMINATION;
@end
The .m for the category follows:
#import "UIAlertView+Block.h"
#import <objc/runtime.h>
static char const * const alertCompletionBlockTag = "alertCompletionBlock";
@implementation UIAlertView (Block)
- (id)initWithTitle:(NSString *)title
message:(NSString *)message
completion:(void (^)(BOOL cancelled, NSInteger buttonIndex))completion
cancelButtonTitle:(NSString *)cancelButtonTitle
otherButtonTitles:(NSString *)otherButtonTitles, ... {
self = [self initWithTitle:title message:message delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:cancelButtonTitle otherButtonTitles:nil ];
if (self) {
objc_setAssociatedObject(self, alertCompletionBlockTag, completion, OBJC_ASSOCIATION_COPY);
va_list _arguments;
va_start(_arguments, otherButtonTitles);
for (NSString *key = otherButtonTitles; key != nil; key = (__bridge NSString *)va_arg(_arguments, void *)) {
[self addButtonWithTitle:key];
}
va_end(_arguments);
}
[self setAlertViewStyle:UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput];
return self;
}
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView didDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
id completion = objc_getAssociatedObject(self, alertCompletionBlockTag);
[self complete:completion index:buttonIndex];
}
- (void) complete:(void (^)(BOOL cancelled, NSInteger buttonIndex))block index:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
BOOL _cancelled = (buttonIndex == self.cancelButtonIndex);
block(_cancelled, buttonIndex );
objc_setAssociatedObject(self, alertCompletionBlockTag, nil, OBJC_ASSOCIATION_COPY);
//objc_removeAssociatedObjects(block);
}
@end
Usage for the category is set below. The main problem is my inability to reference the UIAlertView textField at Index 0 from within the completion block.
[[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Add"
message:@"Add New Asset Type"
completion:^(BOOL cancelled, NSInteger buttonIndex){
if (!cancelled) {
//call on completion of UISheetAction ???
NSLog(@"%@",needToAccessUIAlertView._textFields[0]);
}
}
cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil] show];