Thursday, March 16, 2017

Inherited uiviewcontrollers references in one storyboard. This class is not key value coding-compliant for the key ...

I often inherit my UIViewControllers to add functionality on top of already existing. All works fine, but today I ran into the weird problem. Setup like this:



Where rangeItemEditor view controller inherits from itemEditor view controller. All outlets connected in the parent view controller. On row tap I do performSegue and then this:

This class is not key value coding-compliant for the key ...

Complaining about one of the outlets. After standard troubleshooting, checking that .destinationViewController is right, bunging my head a bit against the wall and trying [navigationController push] which worked I looked more carefully at the Storyboard ID values for these references. Here is obviously a good one:



And the other one, inherited rangeItemEditor had it empty. Filling it in and running again proved the idea that missing Storyboard ID in Identity tab for a references storyboard is a bad thing. I was not clearing this out though, not sure how it happened to be empty.

Thought I'd share to make your troubleshooting of similar cases faster!

In the end I got rid of these references in the storyboard and used [navigationController push]. Why? I just really don't want these crashes when xcode UI Editor decides to remove something behind the scenes. I've witnessed this "open the file -> get the mess" already in xcode storyboards and I really better stay safer here with using old gold manual push. Staying away from the magic until it has predictable results :).

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