tableView(:cellForRowAtIndexPath:) Not Called

Question

I know this question has been asked a million times, but I came across this problem and couldn't figure it out for the life of me, and all the previous examples only have unique code to their problem.

I have a viewcontroller, inside of which I have a tableview. I created a custom tableviewcell class and my problem: The cellforrowatindexpath, which is set up in the viewcontroller isn't even called. I've included the UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate protocols, but no results - my tableview shows up without any of the configurations (mainly populating the cells).

Answer 1

It's super simple, I just figured it out:

Go to the storyboard, select the tableview and ctrl-drag to the yellow box at the top of the view controller (This is a reference to the view controller itself). Then make sure to select both the delegate and datasource options (white dot to the left of the options indicates they're selected).

Answer 2

You can set the delegate properties in storyboards like you mention above but you can also set them in viewDidLoad using:

self.tableView.delegate = self
self.tableView.datasource = self

This will create the reference to the UITableViewDelegate and UITableViewDataSource