UITableView reloadData does not reload

Question

I am quite puzzled why reloadData does not reload the tableview. It does not call numberOfRowsInSection...

The fetchedResultsController does get the new row after having saved the new data into core-data

Before adding new data to the tableview

2011-12-29 19:09:08:213 CaveConditions[56423:71939] FRC 170

After viewWillAppear and adding data

2011-12-29 19:09:35:908 CaveConditions[56423:71939] FRC NEW 171

The tableView (aTableView) is not nil before calling reloadData

2011-12-29 19:18:27:334 CaveConditions[56525:71939] TableVIew: <UITableView: 0x9c12000; frame = (0 0; 320 367); clipsToBounds = YES; autoresize = W+H; layer = <CALayer: 0x751cbb0>; contentOffset: {0, 0}>

As soon as I restart the app it shows the new content... I am using Storyboard and have done all the connection between the tableview and the delegate / data source and checked it multiple times. The Class is a UIViewController.

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
self.fetchedResultsController = nil;

NSError *error;
if (![[self fetchedResultsController] performFetch:&error]) {
    // Update to handle the error appropriately.
    NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
}

id <NSFetchedResultsSectionInfo> sectionInfo = [[fetchedResultsController sections] objectAtIndex:0];
NSLog(@"FRC NEW %d",[sectionInfo numberOfObjects]);

[self.aTableView reloadData];
}

Not sure what the problem is here... Any ideas?

Edit:

I am lazyloading FRC

- (NSFetchedResultsController *)fetchedResultsController 
{
if (!fetchedResultsController)
{
    NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];

    if (isNormalCell)
    {
        fetchRequest.entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Condition" inManagedObjectContext:self.context];
        fetchRequest.sortDescriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"diveDate" ascending:NO]];        
        fetchRequest.predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"cave = %@", cave];
    } else
    {
        fetchRequest.entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Condition" inManagedObjectContext:self.context];
        fetchRequest.sortDescriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"insertDate" ascending:NO]];
        fetchRequest.returnsDistinctResults = YES;
    }
    fetchRequest.fetchBatchSize = 20;


    fetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest 
                                                                   managedObjectContext:context 
                                                                     sectionNameKeyPath:nil 
                                                                              cacheName:nil];

    fetchedResultsController.delegate = self;
}

return fetchedResultsController;
}

Here some code

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier;

if (!isNormalCell)
    CellIdentifier = @"conditionCellReport";
else
    CellIdentifier = @"conditionCell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
    cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
}

// Set up the cell...
[self configureCell:cell atIndexPath:indexPath];

return cell;
}


- (void)configureCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
    Condition *condition = [fetchedResultsController objectAtIndexPath:indexPath];

    ConditionCell *conCell = (ConditionCell *)cell; 

    // Reset cell tag which normally contains the ConditionID
    conCell.tag = 0;
    conCell.img.image = nil;

    conCell.lineLabel.text = [condition.line valueForKey:@"line"];
    conCell.flowProgress.progress = [[condition.flow valueForKey:@"flowValue"] floatValue];
    conCell.percolationProgress.progress = [[condition.percolation valueForKey:@"percolationValue"] floatValue];
    conCell.sedimentProgress.progress = [[condition.sediment valueForKey:@"sedimentValue"] floatValue];
    conCell.visProgress.progress = [[condition.visibility valueForKey:@"visValue"] floatValue] / 25;
    conCell.tag = [condition.ccId intValue];
...

Found another problem. After saving the data and going back to the tableview when trying to scroll it shows only white cells.. it does not reload the old cells too.

Answer 1

OK! I found the problem. Instead of reloadData I used beginUpdates and endUpdates. Thanks a lot for all your help! I got the information from the NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate Reference

- (void)controllerWillChangeContent:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller
{
    [self.tableView beginUpdates];
}

- (void)controllerDidChangeContent:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller
{
    [self.tableView endUpdates];
}