get indexPath of UITableViewCell on click of Button from Cell

Question

I have a button (red color cross) in the UITableViewCell and on click of that button I want to get indexPath of the UITableViewCell.

Right now I am assigning tag to each of the button like this cell.closeButton.tag = indexPath.section and the on click of the button I get the indexPath.section value like this:

@IBAction func closeImageButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject) {
  data.removeAtIndex(sender.tag)
  tableView.reloadData()
}

Is this the right way of implementation or is there any other clean way to do this?

Answer 1

Use Delegates:

MyCell.swift:

import UIKit

//1. delegate method
protocol MyCellDelegate: AnyObject {
    func btnCloseTapped(cell: MyCell)
}

class MyCell: UICollectionViewCell {
    @IBOutlet var btnClose: UIButton!

    //2. create delegate variable
    weak var delegate: MyCellDelegate?

    //3. assign this action to close button
    @IBAction func btnCloseTapped(sender: AnyObject) {
        //4. call delegate method
        //check delegate is not nil with `?`
        delegate?.btnCloseTapped(cell: self)
    }
}

MyViewController.swift:

//5. Conform to delegate method
class MyViewController: UIViewController, MyCellDelegate, UITableViewDataSource,UITableViewDelegate {

    //6. Implement Delegate Method
    func btnCloseTapped(cell: MyCell) {
        //Get the indexpath of cell where button was tapped
        let indexPath = self.collectionView.indexPathForCell(cell)
        print(indexPath!.row)
    }

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

        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("MyCell") as! MyCell
        //7. delegate view controller instance to the cell
        cell.delegate = self

        return cell
    }
}

Answer 2

How to get cell indexPath for tapping button in Swift 4 with button selector

@objc func buttonClicked(_sender:UIButton){

 let buttonPosition = sender.convert(CGPoint.zero, to: self.tableView)
 let indexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForRow(at:buttonPosition)
 let cell = self.tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath) as! UITableViewCell
 print(cell.itemLabel.text)//print or get item
}