How to resolve designated initialization error for UITableViewController?

Question

I'm new to swift and I'm having problems declaring my initializer in my PlacesTableViewController class. It prompts me "Super.init isn't called before returning from initializer" and when I added the Super.init, it prompts me:

"Must call a designated initializer of the superclass 'UITableViewController'"

this is my PlacesTableViewController.swift file:

class PlacesTableViewController: UITableViewController { 

    var pa55DB : COpaquePointer = nil
    var selectStatement : COpaquePointer = nil;

    var chapterdata : Array<Entry> = []
    var ety : Entry
    var sqlString : String = "";

    var chpData : ChapterData

    init(pa55DB : COpaquePointer,selectStatement : COpaquePointer, chapterdata : Array<Entry>, ety : Entry, sqlString : String) {
        super.init()
        self.pa55DB = pa55DB
        self.selectStatement = selectStatement
        self.chapterdata = chapterdata
        self.ety = ety
        self.sqlString = sqlString

    }

    required init!(coder aDecoder: NSCoder!) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }


    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        chpData = ChapterData(newEntryArray : chapterdata, entryV : ety, paDB55 : pa55DB, selectStatement : selectStatement, sqlString : sqlString)
        chpData.openDB()
        chapterdata = chpData.prepareStartment()

        println("Testing...")
    }
...
}

Here's my another class file called ChapterData.swift, used to open database and retrieve data

class Entry {

    let image : String!
    let heading : String!
    let title : String!
    let description : String!
    public init(image : String, heading : String, title : String, desc : String) {
        self.heading = heading
        self.image = image
        self.title = title
        self.description = desc
    }
}


class ChapterData {

    var paDB : COpaquePointer = nil;
    var selectStatement : COpaquePointer = nil;
    var sqlString : String = "";

    var newEntryArray : Array<Entry> = [];
    var entryV : Entry;

    init(newEntryArray : Array<Entry>, entryV : Entry, paDB55 : COpaquePointer, selectStatement : COpaquePointer, sqlString : String){
        self.newEntryArray = newEntryArray
        self.entryV = entryV
        self.paDB = paDB55
        self.selectStatement = selectStatement
        self.sqlString = sqlString
    }

    func openDB() {
        var paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0] as! String
        var docsDir = paths.stringByAppendingPathComponent("pa55.sqlite")


        if (sqlite3_open(docsDir, &paDB) == SQLITE_OK) {
            println("success open database")
        }
        else {
            println("failed to open database")
        }
    }

    func prepareStartment() -> Array<Entry>   {
        sqlString = "SELECT * FROM Chapter ORDER BY CID ASC"
        var cSql = sqlString.cStringUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
        sqlite3_prepare_v2(paDB, cSql!, -1, &selectStatement, nil)

        println("startment start")

        while (sqlite3_step(selectStatement) == SQLITE_ROW) {

            let image_buf = sqlite3_column_text(selectStatement, 3)
            var image = String.fromCString(UnsafePointer<CChar>(image_buf))

            let heading_buf = sqlite3_column_text(selectStatement, 1)
            var heading = String.fromCString(UnsafePointer<CChar>(heading_buf))

            let title_buf = sqlite3_column_text(selectStatement, 2)
            var title = String.fromCString(UnsafePointer<CChar>(title_buf))

            let desc_buf = sqlite3_column_text(selectStatement, 4)
            var description = String.fromCString(UnsafePointer<CChar>(desc_buf))

            entryV = Entry(image: image!, heading: heading!, title: title!, desc: description!)
            newEntryArray.append(entryV)
        }
        println("select statement successful executed")
        return newEntryArray
    }

}

Answer 1

The init mess is a known limitation of the ObjC <-> Swift bridging.

One way to work around this is to delegate to super's init(nibName:bundle:) initializer.

class PlacesTableViewController: UITableViewController { 

    var chapterdata: [Entry]
    var chpData: ChapterData?
    var ety: Entry
    var pa55DB: COpaquePointer
    var selectStatement: COpaquePointer
    var sqlString: String


    init(pa55DB: COpaquePointer, selectStatement: COpaquePointer, chapterdata: [Entry], ety: Entry, sqlString: String) {
        self.pa55DB = pa55DB
        self.selectStatement = selectStatement
        self.chapterdata = chapterdata
        self.ety = ety
        self.sqlString = sqlString

        super.init(nibName: nil, bundle: nil)
    }


    required init(coder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

    // …
}