Pass data between ViewController and TabBarController

Question

I have couple of questions. How to pass the data (which i got after the Alamofire request is finished), to one of children of TabBarController?

The first problem i have is that i can't override the func prepareForSegue inside login action(when the button is tapped), it says i can override only class members. But if i put the func outside of IBAction then i won't send the data that i need.

And the second problem is, when i put the overrided function outside of IBAction, and the code look like this:

 override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject!) {

            let homeVC = segue.destinationViewController as HomeViewController
            homeVC.templateForCell = templates
        }

when i run it, i got the error:

Could not cast value of type 'UITabBarController' to HomeViewController'

(HomeViewController is my destination view, where i should pass the data from Alamofire).

Answer 1

You don't necessarily need to use prepareForSegue for this. Just reference which ViewController in the TabBarController viewControllers array that you want and cast it.

let vc = self.tabBarController.viewControllers![1] as! HomeViewController
vc.templateForCell = templates

If the ViewControllers in your TabBar are embedded in Navigation Controllers, you can do this:

let navController = self.tabBarController.viewControllers![1] as! UINavigationController
let vc = navController.topViewController as! HomeViewController
vc.templateForCell = templates