Identical Custom Cells being output (Swift)

Question

I am trying to create a custom TableView that will output custom cells depending on the keys contained in a Dictionary. I have created classes and outlets for each custom cell, but when I build and run; the same custom cell is displayed multiple times. I have the correct number of cells being displayed (i.e. the same as number of keys present in the dictionary) but I can't seem to differentiate between outputted cells.

Here is my code:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return self.dataDict.count
}

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    if (dataDict.indexForKey("Number") != nil) {
        let firstcell:MyFirstCell = self.scanConfirmTable.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("scanfirst", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! MyFirstCell
        return firstcell
    }

    else if (dataDict.indexForKey("Social") != nil) {
        let secondcell:MySecondCell = self.scanConfirmTable.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("scansecond", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! MySecondCell
        return secondcell
    }
else {
        let emptycell:ScanEmptyCell = self.scanConfirmTable.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("scanemptycell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! ScanEmptyCell
        return emptycell
    }

I have searched previous posts on here and found an option to use something like:

let currentTag = dataDict[indexPath.row]

But I am getting an error:

Cannot subscript a value of type '[String:String]' with an index type 'Int'.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Answer 1

Instead of using Dictionary try to use Array that contains your all keys with sorted and use that array with tableViewDataSource methods.

var keysArray = [String]()

keysArray = Array(dataDict.keys).sorted(<)

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return self.keysArray.count
}

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    if (keysArray[indexPath.row] == "Number") {
        let firstcell:MyFirstCell = self.scanConfirmTable.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("scanfirst", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! MyFirstCell
        return firstcell
    }

    else if (keysArray[indexPath.row] == "Social") { 
        let secondcell:MySecondCell = self.scanConfirmTable.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("scansecond", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! MySecondCell
        return secondcell
    }
    else {
        let emptycell:ScanEmptyCell = self.scanConfirmTable.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("scanemptycell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! ScanEmptyCell
        return emptycell
    }