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Maybe not exactly in the same vein that you're thinking of, but I thought I'd toss this out there ...

One of my favorite re-implementations of UITableView/Cells is on Matt Gallagher's Cocoa With Love. He makes some great points that explain the unease I feel in my gut every time I look at yet another UITableViewController.

I like the idea of serving up a variety of cells from a single table, without having to cram all those conditional into cellForRowAtIndexPath: ... Moreover, teaching the cell how to think for itself goes a long way to cleaning up a lot of the mess.

Granted, it's on the fringes of MVC-thinking, but it seems to offer more promise than the current approaches we've all taken.

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RestKit datasource has a nice but imperfect approach of class mapping. The datasource was written on top of the restkit mapping framework to ease the integration with Three20.

This design makes allot of sense when having the MVC module in mind - One can create an Item which acts as the controller. That Item holds the relevant data mapped from the the Model. Fields from the the model are then mapped to an UITableViewCell which is responsible for viewing hence the Viewer. Changes in the model (the adding of fields or changing fields that are not relevant for the controller) won't screw up the controller and the viewer.

I would love to take part in tackling this one, it's an issue I've wasted enormous amount of time in many different projects :)

Cheers,
Uri

P.s
https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit

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Check out the new RKTableController branch to see how we handle mapping and cell generation now. I think it's a bit more elegant than the way it was done for RKThree20

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On Dec 25, 2011, at 8:34 AM, [email protected] wrote:

RestKit datasource has a nice but imperfect approach of class mapping. The datasource was written on top of the restkit mapping framework to ease the integration with Three20.

This design makes allot of sense when having the MVC module in mind - One can create an Item which acts as the controller. That Item holds the relevant data mapped from the the Model. Fields from the the model are then mapped to an UITableViewCell which is responsible for viewing hence the Viewer. Changes in the model (the adding of fields or changing fields that are not relevant for the controller) won't screw up the controller and the viewer.

I would love to take part in tackling this one, it's an issue I've wasted enormous amount of time in many different projects :)

Cheers,
Uri

P.s
https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit

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Dear Greg,

I'm familier with the RKTableController, but how do u thought about integrate it with nimbus? I mean RestKit needs to lay on some other library that provide the viewer and some of the controller. Does restkit developers plan to give the whole MVC solution?

Uri.

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I don't know enough about nimbus yet to say how it would integrate. It doesn't need to lay on another library really to do the whole MVC. You point it to a UITableView, configure some RKTableViewCellMapping, and flip
a few switches on the RKTableController and you're done. Customizing adds a little extra work but that's it

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Dear Greg,

I'm familier with the RKTableController, but how do u thought about integrate it with nimbus? I mean RestKit needs to lay on some other library that provide the viewer and some of the controller. Does restkit developers plan to give the whole MVC solution?

Uri.

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Thanks Greg, sounds good I'll try and give it a look :)

Uri May
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On Monday, December 26, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Greg Combs wrote:

I don't know enough about nimbus yet to say how it would integrate. It doesn't need to lay on another library really to do the whole MVC. You point it to a UITableView, configure some RKTableViewCellMapping, and flip
a few switches on the RKTableController and you're done. Customizing adds a little extra work but that's it

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On Dec 26, 2011, at 8:09 AM, uri-may<[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:

Dear Greg,

I'm familier with the RKTableController, but how do u thought about integrate it with nimbus? I mean RestKit needs to lay on some other library that provide the viewer and some of the controller. Does restkit developers plan to give the whole MVC solution?

Uri.

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I think it may be a good idea to provide an implementation of cell that is backed by NIB http://www.hollance.com/2011/03/mhnibtableviewcell-easily-load-table-view-cells-from-nib-files/

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http://blog.atebits.com/2008/12/fast-scrolling-in-tweetie-with-uitableview/

Another problem with this approach that it makes cells unaccessible to blind people. So probably it should at least be disabled when VoiceOver is enabled.

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I don't know if this is really going to be necessary going forward as hardware starts performing well enough not to need it.

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