Easy way to change the Apple cell style

[KrauseFx]

I wanted to set the cell style of my cells (e.g. UITableViewCellStyleValue1, UITableViewCellStyleValue2)

As far as I found out the only easy way to do that is to subclass ReTableViewItem, override the initializer and set the style there.

- (id)initWithTitle:(NSString *)title
      accessoryType:(UITableViewCellAccessoryType)accessoryType
   selectionHandler:(void (^)(RETableViewItem *))selectionHandler
accessoryButtonTapHandler:(void (^)(RETableViewItem *))accessoryButtonTapHandler
{
    if ((self = [super initWithTitle:title
                                    accessoryType:accessoryType
                                 selectionHandler:selectionHandler
           accessoryButtonTapHandler:accessoryButtonTapHandler])) {
        self.style = UITableViewCellStyleValue1;
    }
    return self;
}

Wouldn't it be better to set it like this from outside without the requirement to subclass:

[GCTournamentItem setDefaultCellStyle:UITableViewCellStyleValue1];

What do you think?

[KrauseFx]

I can implement this feature if you want. Just wanted to ask first, to be sure I'm not missing something obvious.

[romaonthego]

I don't think it's a good idea to mass assign cell style on a class level. In most of the cases the cell style will depend on a particular item and its attributes. Each item has the style property:

RETableViewItem *item = [RETableViewItem item];
item.style = UITableViewCellStyleValue1;

[KrauseFx]

Let's say I have a GCAppointmentItem class which represents an appointment. Every time I present an appointment I want to display the title and the name. I'd have to set the style manually every time I create a GCAppointMentItem (when I don't want to override the initializer), instead of setting it once as default. Does that make sense?

[romaonthego]

Right, so in your subclass' initializer override the style, that seems logical to me. This is your edge case, there's a possibility of a million edge cases where people would want to define, say, custom text color for each cell type, etc. I have the main goal of keeping it simple by getting rid of UITableViewDelegate burden.