How to manage creating a UITableViewCells? - objective-c

Question

Would you guyz be so kind to help me with such question:
I have to fill the tableView with cells and I also have an array with objects to fill cells with.
The question is - how to skip creating a cell if the object doesn't meet some conditions? I mean how to write something like:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)aTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
if(objectIsOk) {
//create cell
}
else {
//do nothing
}
return cell;
NOTE: I don't have an access to that array of objects it gives me an object per indexPath.row dynamically

Answer 1

I'm unsure as to what you mean by "skip creating a cell". Your table view data source is required to return a cell for each cellForRowAtIndexPath: call, which will get called for each row in each section that you have said the table will contain.
If you want to return a blank cell then why not just do something like this:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)aTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell *cell = nil;
if (objectIsOk) {
// Create normal cell
} else {
cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:#"BlankCell"];
}
return cell;
}
You could also return height of zero in the heightForRowAtIndexPath: delegate method to make it appear that it's not there, like so:
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)aTableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
if (objectIsOk) {
return 44.0f;
} else {
return 0.0f;
}
}