Unexpected Header View in UITableView's section using NSFetchedResultsController

Question

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It is easy to see, that the lightblue is a

UITableViewHeaderFooterView

, and the white one is UITableViewCell
. I use

NSFetchedResultsController

to load sections and groups from CoreData. Every blue header is a new section.

SOMETIMES (not always) there is a header view instead of a table view cell. Why?

In

viewDidLoad

i register header View:

tableView.registerNib(UINib(nibName: "PBOUserWorkDayHeaderView", bundle: nil), forHeaderFooterViewReuseIdentifier: PBOUserWorkDayHeaderViewIdentifier)

What is more interesting, when I Debug View Hierarchy you can see, that there is my custom cell, just covered by header. Why?

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Is it iOS bug? What do you think? Sth wrong with rendering or with my way of thinking?

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Answer 1

Since it is a problem with headers, I created a custom method to remove unnecessary headers every time when tableView ask for `viewForHeaderInSection:.

Assuming that you know how to distinguish the headers from other views (in my case they have a custom class) and that you know that header views are direct subviews of tableView you can remove them in following way:

private func removeDoubledHeaders() {
    let subviews = tableView.subviews.reverse()

    var dates = [String]()
    for view in subviews {
        if let header = view as? PBOUserWorkDayHeaderView {
            if let date = header.dateLabel.text {
                if contains(dates, date) {
                    view.removeFromSuperview()
                } else {
                    dates.append(date)
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Unexpected Header View in UITableView's section using NSFetchedResultsController

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