ios - UIButton action in table view cell

Question

I am trying to run an action for a button being pressed within a table view cell. The following code is in my table view controller class.

The button has been described as "yes" in an outlet in my class of UITableViewCell called requestsCell.

I am using Parse to save data and would like to update an object when the button is pressed. My objectIds array works fine, the cell.yes.tag also prints the correct number to the logs, however, I cannot get that number into my "connected" function in order to run my query properly.

I need a way to get the indexPath.row of the cell to find the proper objectId.

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as requestsCell

    // Configure the cell...

    cell.name.text = requested[indexPath.row]

    imageFiles[indexPath.row].getDataInBackgroundWithBlock{
        (imageData: NSData!, error: NSError!) -> Void in

        if error == nil {

            let image = UIImage(data: imageData)

            cell.userImage.image = image
        }else{
            println("not working")
        }    
    }

    cell.yes.tag = indexPath.row
    cell.yes.targetForAction("connected", withSender: self)

    println(cell.yes.tag)

    return cell
}


func connected(sender: UIButton!) {

    var query = PFQuery(className:"Contacts")
    query.getObjectInBackgroundWithId(objectIDs[sender.tag]) {
        (gameScore: PFObject!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
        if error != nil {
            NSLog("%@", error)
        } else {
            gameScore["connected"] = "yes"
            gameScore.save()
        }
    }

}

Answer 1

Swift 4 & Swift 5:

You need to add target for that button.

myButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(connected(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside)

And of course you need to set tag of that button since you are using it.

myButton.tag = indexPath.row

You can achieve this by subclassing UITableViewCell. Use it in interface builder, drop a button on that cell, connect it via outlet and there you go.

To get the tag in the connected function:

@objc func connected(sender: UIButton){
    let buttonTag = sender.tag
}