Search result doesn't show cells in tableView

Question

The tableView doesn't show the cells with results from my search. The search is working fine, I verified all the data, but when I assign the cell.localName?.text to the value, it's always nil. Not sure what is wrong. I've found another post with same issue in Objective-C and the answer there was that I need to use the cell from the real tableView, by adding self.tableView when dequeueing the cell, but it didn't work for me. Any suggestions?

Here is my code:

class SearchResultsController: UITableViewController, UISearchResultsUpdating {
var localNames: [String] = []
var filteredNames: [String] = []

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    tableView.registerClass(localCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "localCell")
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

func updateSearchResultsForSearchController(searchController: UISearchController) {
    let searchedString = searchController.searchBar.text
    filteredNames.removeAll(keepCapacity: true)
    if !searchedString.isEmpty {
        let filter: String -> Bool = {name in
            let range = name.rangeOfString(searchedString, options: NSStringCompareOptions.CaseInsensitiveSearch)
            return range != nil
        }
            let matches = localNames.filter(filter)
            filteredNames += matches

    }
    tableView.reloadData()
}



// MARK: - Table view data source

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    // #warning Incomplete method implementation.
    // Return the number of rows in the section.
    return filteredNames.count
}


override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell: localCell = self.tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("localCell") as localCell
    cell.localName?.text =  filteredNames[indexPath.row]
    println(cell.localName?.text)
    cell.localAddress?.text = "text"
    cell.scheduleData?.text = "text"
    cell.salaData?.text = "text"
    cell.wifiData?.text = "text"
    return cell
}

Answer 1

Ok, so I found the solution and posting in case someone else will have the same issue as I had. I was using the custom cell from a prototype cell from storyboard. The resultController creates a new tableView that knows nothing about the custom cell, that's why it returns always nil. To fix it, I made a reference to the firstly used tableView and not a new one, or get the cell from a real table, this way my custom cell was recognised.