Appending Custom Cell Label and TextField text to Array of Dictionary

Question

I have a custom tableView cell with a UILabel and a UITextField. I would like to append the data from the textField with label to an array of dictionaries ([label:textfield]). I can get the textField data using textFieldDidEndEditing but I am not sure how to get the cell label for that same textfield. I would think I would need access to that cell's indexPath. I tried sending a notification to DidSelectRow but that seemed too complicated.

 override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: expenseCell, for: indexPath) as! LineItemTableViewCell
        let sectionsArray = expenses[sections[indexPath.section]]
        let expenseItem = sectionsArray?[indexPath.row]
        cell.budgetLineItemView.label.text = expenseItem!
        cell.budgetLineItemView.lineItemTextField.delegate = self

        return cell
    }

    //MARK: UITextField Delegate

    func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
        textField.layer.borderColor = UIColor.blue.cgColor
        textField.keyboardType = .decimalPad
        textField.becomeFirstResponder()
    }


    func textFieldDidEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
        //get textfield text after editing here
    }

This is my dictionary:

 var expenses:[String:[[String:Double]]] = ["Housing":[["Rent/Mortgage":0.0],
["Gas":0.0],["Water/Power":0.0],["Cable/Internet":0.0],["Garbage":0.0],["Property 
Tax":0.0],["Homeowners/Renters Insurance":0.0]],"Transportation":[["Car 
Payment":0.0],["Car Insurance":0.0],["Roadside Insurance":0.0]],"Other Expenses":
[["Health Insurance":0.0],["Life Insurance":0.0],["Disability Insurance":0.0],
["Student Loans":0.0],["Cell Phone":0.0],["Other":0.0]]]

You can do this for cell in tableView.visibleCells() as! [UITableViewCell] { //do something with the cell here.} — iphonic
That allows me to see what each element at each visible cell is but it doesn't let me update and append the values of those cells to my dictionary (see update) — Michael Williams
Doesn't let you update? what is the type of object do you have, if its a NSArray or, NSDictionary you need to use NSMutableArray or, NSMutableDictionary and after changing the values reload the table. — iphonic

Syed Ali Salman Syed Ali Salman · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-28T05:53:50

Can you do something like this?

why not setting up tag to each label and textFiled like follow in your cellForRowAtIndexPath

textField.tag = indexPath.row

and in the delegate textFieldDidBeganEditing or where necessary use the tag to get cell and then the label as below

let indexpath = NSIndexPath(forRow: textField.tag, inSection: 0)
let currentCell = tblTest.cellForRowAtIndexPath(indexpath) as! youCellClass

then using currentCell you may access it's label

Appending Custom Cell Label and TextField text to Array of Dictionary

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