SWIFT uiviewcontroller init

Question

I am starting to use Swift.

with Objective-C when I could avoid using storyboard, initializing a view controller was easy. I would just create a UIViewController subclass, and I would put all the initialization code inside initWithNibName.

Now with storyboard I'm lost. I created a UIviewController subclass, I tried adding init(nib name) and init(coder) but it crashes.

This is my code:

   //
    //  SecondViewController.swift
    //  tabTestWithSwift
    //
    //  Created by Marianna Ruggieri  on 02/11/14.
    //  Copyright (c) 2014 Marianna Ruggieri. All rights reserved.
    //

    import UIKit

class FirstViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }

    override init(nibName nibNameOrNil: String?, bundle nibBundleOrNil: NSBundle?) {
        println("init with nib")
        super.init()
        tabBarItem.title = "test"
    }

    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        //fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
        print("init coder")
        super.init()
    }

}

See this screenshot: http://oi62.tinypic.com/10ogwsh.jpg

EDIT: I didn't do anything special. Started a TabBar project and edited the view controller as you see in the code above. That's it!!!!

Which is the correct way to initialize a UIViewController if I'm using storyboard? Where should I put all the settings for my view controller? The load is too late for certain settings.

Solution

You are creating a loop by calling super.init() where you should be calling init(nibName:nibBundleOrNil). The super implementation of init() calls your method, which in turn calls super init again.

Comments

[jamil ahmed]

Where does it crash? Is there an exception message? What have you tried to debug so far?

[Marianna]

it worked!!!! can you explain me better why please? i tried to put also super.init(coder:aDecoder) inside the init(coder) and it never called the nib init... i'm lost cause Xcode always want me to use init(coder)

[Bob Vork]

Well in general, when you're overriding a function, the call to super should use the same signature (if you don't the nib name and bundle name will be lost). which one of the initializers is called depends on how you instantiate your class or nib