How to change clearsSelectionOnViewWillAppear when not using UITableViewController?

Question

I have a UIViewController that manages a UISearchBar and UITableView. I've read that Apple discourage having multiple UIViewControllers manage part of your application, so I did not used UITableViewController to manage the UITableView. Instead, I implemented the UITableViewDelegate and UITableViewDataSource protocol in my own UIViewController.

My question is, since I am no longer using UITableViewController, how do I actually change the clearsSelectionOnViewWillAppear behavior? This property is part of UITableViewController.

Answer 1

Simply by calling

[myTableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:[myTableView indexPathForSelectedRow] animated:YES];

in your viewWillAppear: method.

Answer 2

Here the Swift code:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    if let indexPath = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow() {
        tableView.deselectRowAtIndexPath(indexPath, animated: true)
    }
}