我们知道,对于一个视图控制器类UIViewController,可以通过[self view]来获取到它所管理的视图UIView,反过来,对于一个视图类UIView,我们怎么获取到它的UIViewController?
UIView继承自UIResponder,UIResponder有一个实例方法- (UIResponder *)nextResponder,该方法返回响应链(responder chain)上的下一个对象。
有关- (UIResponder *)nextResponder方法,更具体的说明可参考UIResponder Class Reference,主要有几个重点:
1)UIResponder类不会自动存储和设置它的下一个响应者(the next responder),默认情况下nextResponder方法放回nil;
2)UIResponder的子类必须重载nextResponder方法,设置下一个响应者。比如UIView类,当管理它的UIViewController对象存在时,返回该UIViewController,否则返回它的父视图(superview);UIViewController类返回它所管理的视图的父视图;UIWindow类返回应用对象(the application object);UIApplication类返回nil。
通过以上的分析,对于一个视图类UIView,我们可以利用- (UIResponder *)nextResponder方法遍历响应链,获取到它的UIViewController,具体代码:
- @implementation UIView (FindUIViewController)
- - (UIViewController *)viewController {
- /// Finds the view's view controller.
- // Traverse responder chain. Return first found view controller, which will be the view's view controller.
- UIResponder *responder = self;
- while ((responder = [responder nextResponder]))
- if ([responder isKindOfClass: [UIViewController class]])
- return (UIViewController *)responder;
- // If the view controller isn't found, return nil.
- return nil;
- }
- @end
- (UIViewController *)viewController { for (UIView* next = [self superview]; next; next = next.superview) { UIResponder *nextResponder = [next nextResponder]; if ([nextResponder isKindOfClass:[UIViewController class]]) { return (UIViewController *)nextResponder; } } return nil; }