Issues regarding dynamic resizing of label and row

Question

Context:

• Building an app that populates a table that takes in data from a asyc json dump.
• The cells are of a custom class (I defined). The main label in the cell can be very long.
• It is "placed" in storyboard within a prototype cell but customized via code (pretty standard stuff).
• Labels are resized in cellForRowAtIndexPath and rows are resized via heightForRowAtIndexPath -- rows are resized by forcing a call to cellForRowAtIndex like Massimo's answer here

So per the question at hand - I've noticed some interesting (bad) things that happen.

First issue: When the table loads, the rows and labels are dynamically resized correctly! Great! However, when I scroll down and then scroll back up, the label heights will be incorrect -- (for example) the first row was correct at loading. Then when I scroll down and then scroll back up to see it again, it will be truncated. Specifically, the row size will be fine but the label height will change and become truncated to 2 lines only. Wondering if this is because I did both storyboard and coding to customize the cell. Anybody see this before?

Second issue: When I scroll down, while the rows are sized correctly (large), the labels are short (truncated.) Wondering if it's some reverse of the above "potential answer".

• "potential answer" is that the rows are all calculated and stored "up front" so that scrolling down/then back up doesn't affect it. However, when cells go "out of view" and are dequeued then when they re-viewed (scroll down/then back up) it will rely on the storyboard.(inappropriately?)

Answer 1

All three of your issues are symptomatic of returning the wrong height in heightForRowAtIndexPath. In my data model classes I have a calculateHeight method that I call in heightForRowAtIndexPath. The model also caches the answer so it doesn't have to recalculate it after the first call. The cell class uses the model's calculated height to layout its subviews.

Answer 2

"ANSWERED" by deleting the prototype cell from the storyboard and making them fully in code, the issue went away. The fundamental workings are still not understood (ie. the interactions between storyboard vs. code when cells are put queued and then viewed again)