How to populate tableView custom cell in Swift 3?

Question

I am loading news from the server in to the tableView. Now I want to make a custom cell with headline, image and excerpt. I made a custom class for the cell and I gave the cell custom identifier. I put two labels (one for headline and one for excerpt). Now I just want to display headline in the first label and excerpt in the second label.

       @IBOutlet weak var headline: UILabel!

       @IBOutlet weak var excerpt: UILabel!

//Custom struct for the data
struct News {
    let title : String
    let text : String
    let link : String
    let imgUrl : String

    init(dictionary: [String:String]) {
        self.title = dictionary["title"] ?? ""
        self.text = dictionary["text"] ?? ""
        self.link = dictionary["link"] ?? ""
        self.imgUrl = dictionary["imgUrl"] ?? ""
    }
}

//Array which holds the news
var newsData = [News]()

// Download the news
func downloadData() {
    Alamofire.request("https://api.sis.kemoke.net/news").responseJSON { response in
        print(response.request)  // original URL request
        print(response.response) // HTTP URL response
        print(response.data)     // server data
        print(response.result)   // result of response serialization

        //Optional binding to handle exceptions
        self.newsData.removeAll() // clean the data source array
        if let json = response.result.value as? [[String:String]] {
            for news in json {
                self.newsData.append(News(dictionary: news))
            }
            self.tableView.reloadData()
        }
    }
}

And in the following method I display the data in the cell

  override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt     indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell", for: indexPath)
    let news = newsData[indexPath.row]
    cell.textLabel?.text = news.title
    cell.detailTextLabel?.text = news.text
    return cell
 }

Answer 1

Create a subclass from UITableViewCell fe NewsCell .

connect your outlets

@IBOutlet weak var headline: UILabel!
@IBOutlet weak var excerpt: UILabel!

to NewsCell . In your override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

function cast the cell like this:

let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell", for: indexPath) as? NewsCell

and set your properties.

Make sure you set the class of the storyboard prototype cell as NewsCell.