Setting tableHeaderView height dynamically

Question

My application creates a UITableViewController that contains a custom tableHeaderView which may have an arbitrary height. I've been struggling with a way to set this header dynamically, as it seems the suggested ways have been cutting this header short. My UITableViewController's relevant code:

import UIKit
import SafariServices

class RedditPostViewController: UITableViewController, NetworkCommunication, SubViewLaunchLinkManager {

    //MARK: UITableViewDataSource
    var post: PostData?
    var tree: CommentTree?
    weak var session: Session! = Session.sharedInstance

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Get post info from api
        guard let postData = post else { return }

        //Configure comment table
        self.tableView.registerClass(RedditPostCommentTableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "CommentCell")

       let tableHeader = PostView(withPost: postData, inViewController: self)
       let size = tableHeader.systemLayoutSizeFittingSize(UILayoutFittingExpandedSize)
       let height = size.height
       let width = size.width
       tableHeader.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height)
       self.tableView.tableHeaderView = tableHeader


       session.getRedditPost(postData) { (post) in
           self.post = post?.post
           self.tree = post?.comments
           self.tableView.reloadData()
       }
    }
}

This results in the following incorrect layout:

If I change the line: tableHeader.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height) to tableHeader.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, width, 1000) the tableHeaderView will lay itself out correctly:

I'm not sure what I'm doing incorrectly here. Also, custom UIView class, if this helps:

import UIKit
import Foundation

protocol SubViewLaunchLinkManager: class {
    func launchLink(sender: UIButton)
}

class PostView: UIView {

    var body: UILabel?
    var post: PostData?
    var domain: UILabel?
    var author: UILabel?
    var selfText: UILabel?
    var numComments: UILabel?

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("Not implemented yet")
    }

    init(withPost post: PostData, inViewController viewController: SubViewLaunchLinkManager) {
        super.init(frame: CGRectZero)

        self.post = post
        self.backgroundColor = UIColor.lightGrayColor()

        let launchLink = UIButton()
        launchLink.setImage(UIImage(named: "circle-user-7"), forState: .Normal)
        launchLink.addTarget(viewController, action: "launchLink:", forControlEvents: .TouchUpInside)
        self.addSubview(launchLink)

        selfText = UILabel()
        selfText?.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
        selfText?.numberOfLines = 0
        selfText?.lineBreakMode = .ByWordWrapping
        selfText!.text = post.selfText
        self.addSubview(selfText!)
        selfText?.sizeToFit()

        //let attributedString = NSAttributedString(string: "Test"/*post.selfTextHtml*/, attributes: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType])
        //selfText.attributedText = attributedString

        body = UILabel()
        body!.text = post.title
        body!.numberOfLines = 0
        body!.lineBreakMode = .ByWordWrapping
        body!.textAlignment = .Justified
        self.addSubview(body!)

        domain = UILabel()
        domain!.text = post.domain
        self.addSubview(domain!)

        author = UILabel()
        author!.text = post.author
        self.addSubview(author!)

        numComments = UILabel()
        numComments!.text = "\(post.numComments)"
        self.addSubview(numComments!)

        body!.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        domain!.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        author!.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        selfText!.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        launchLink.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        numComments!.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

        let views: [String: UIView] = ["body": body!, "domain": domain!, "author": author!, "numComments": numComments!, "launchLink": launchLink, "selfText": selfText!]
        //let selfTextSize = selfText?.sizeThatFits((selfText?.frame.size)!)
        //print(selfTextSize)
        //let metrics = ["selfTextHeight": selfTextSize!.height]

                   self.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("V:|-[body]-[selfText]-[domain]-|", options: [], metrics: nil, views: views))
       self.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("V:|-[body]-[selfText]-[author]-|", options: [], metrics: nil, views: views))
    self.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("V:|-[body]-[selfText]-[numComments]-|", options: [], metrics: nil, views: views))
    self.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("V:|-[launchLink]-[numComments]-|", options: [], metrics: nil, views: views))
    self.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("H:|[body][launchLink]|", options: [], metrics: nil, views: views))
    self.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("H:|[selfText][launchLink]|", options: [], metrics: nil, views: views))
    self.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("H:|[domain][author][numComments][launchLink]|", options: [], metrics: nil, views: views))
}

override func layoutSubviews() {
    super.layoutSubviews()
    body?.preferredMaxLayoutWidth = body!.bounds.width
}
}

Answer 1

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override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

    if let headerView = tableView.tableHeaderView {

        let height = headerView.systemLayoutSizeFitting(UIView.layoutFittingCompressedSize).height
        var headerFrame = headerView.frame

        //Comparison necessary to avoid infinite loop
        if height != headerFrame.size.height {
            headerFrame.size.height = height
            headerView.frame = headerFrame
            tableView.tableHeaderView = headerView
        }
    }
}