UITableViewController to display a persons information -- need assistance with editing

Question

I have a UITableViewController that is being called when the user clicks on a row in the previous ViewController (which shows all contacts for the app).

This view that I'm working on needs to show detailed information. Right now I'm only working with

• First Name
• Last Name
• Home Email
• Work Email

Eventually I will add in much more information but this is my proof of concept data I want to work with.

The information passed into this scene is populated from a Person object.

I'm trying to figure out how I can do a few things when the user hits Edit.

1. I need to be able to show all the information that can be entered. So if the Person object only has "First Name", "Last Name" defined, then I also want to show that the other two email fields are available.
2. To piggy back off of the first issue I'm having, I would like to hide the fields if they are not present (outside of editing)
3. I want to be able to delete a field and be able to delete the whole Person object (maybe a button at the bottom like iOS7 contacts).

I just need some assistance or a push in the right direction.

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Here is the code that I have for this ViewController

//
//  SingleContactViewController.h
//  General view to display a single person record

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "PublicContactsViewController.h"
#import "Person.h"

@interface SingleContactViewController : UITableViewController <ADBannerViewDelegate>

@property (nonatomic, strong) Person *person;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIBarButtonItem *editButton;
@property (nonatomic, assign, getter=isPrivate) BOOL private;

@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *firstNameTextField;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *lastNameTextField;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *homeEmailTextField;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *workEmailTextField;

@end

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//
//  SingleContactViewController.m
//

#import "SingleContactViewController.h"
#import "Person.h"

@interface SingleContactViewController ()

@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet ADBannerView *banner;
@property (nonatomic, assign) BOOL isEditing;
- (IBAction)popBackToContacts:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender;
- (IBAction)editContact:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender;
@end


@implementation SingleContactViewController

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:.498 green:0 blue:.0 alpha:1];
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    _banner.delegate = self;
    NSLog(@"SingleContactView - viewDidLoad method: person = %@",self.person.firstName);
    self.firstNameTextField.text = [self.person.firstName copy];
    self.lastNameTextField.text = [self.person.lastName copy];
    self.homeEmailTextField.text = [self.person.homeEmail copy];
    self.workEmailTextField.text = [self.person.workEmail copy];
}

#pragma mark - Editing Methods

- (void)setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    NSLog(@"Entered setEditing");
    [super setEditing:editing animated:animated];
    [self.tableView setEditing:editing animated:animated];
    if (editing == YES){
        // Change views to edit mode.

    }
    else {
      //
    }
}

- (IBAction)editContact:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender {
    NSLog(@"User pressed 'Edit' button. Entered editContact method");
    if ([self.tableView isEditing]) {
        // If the tableView is already in edit mode, turn it off. Also change the title of the button to reflect the intended verb (‘Edit’, in this case).
        UIBarButtonItem *newButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:@"Edit" style:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:@selector(editContact:)];
        self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = newButton;
        _editButton = newButton;
        [self.tableView setEditing:NO animated:YES];
    }
    else {
        UIBarButtonItem *newButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:@"Done" style:UIBarButtonSystemItemEdit target:self action:@selector(editContact:)];
        self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = newButton;
        _editButton = newButton;
        [self.tableView setEditing:YES animated:YES];
    }
}

#pragma mark - Navigation Methods
- (IBAction)popBackToContacts:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender
{
    [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}


- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    return YES;
}

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{

    if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete) {
        // Perform Delete

        // Animate the deletion
        [tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];


    }
    else if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleInsert) {
        // Create a new instance of the appropriate class, insert it into the array, and add a new row to the table view

        [tableView insertRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath]withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];

    }
}
@end

Answer 1

I discovered this StaticDataTableViewControlller and it resolved my issue immediately. I appreciate the help in this post though!