webViewDidFinishLoad not firing when UIWebView opens a PDF - objective-c

Question

Here is my code:
- (BOOL) webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType; {
/* Add Content Loading Banner */
if (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked) {
[self.view addSubview:linkLoadView];
linkLoadView.alpha = 1.0;
}
/* Handle PDF Opening */
NSURL *url = [request URL];
NSString *urlString = [url absoluteString];
if([urlString rangeOfString:#".pdf"].location == NSNotFound){
return true;
} else {
NSURL *filePath = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:filePath];
[pdfViewer loadRequest:requestObj];
[self.view addSubview:topView];
[self.view addSubview:linkLoadView];
return false;
}
}
Basically what this does is detect a PDF link from within my UIWebView webView and loads it into an additional UIWebView pdfViewer (found on a View called topView). I then have a function as below:
- (void) webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)theWebView{
//for webView
[UIView animateWithDuration:2
animations:^{
loadingView.alpha = 0.0;
linkLoadView.alpha = 0.0;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
[loadingView removeFromSuperview];
[linkLoadView removeFromSuperview];
}];
}
The above function doesn't fire at all for the pdfViewer web view, but does for the webView web view. How do I fix this?
Here is my setup settings for both webViews, on the viewDidLoad method.
//Options for
webView.delegate = self;
webView.scalesPageToFit = YES;
for (id subview in webView.subviews)
if ([[subview class] isSubclassOfClass: [UIScrollView class]])
((UIScrollView *)subview).bounces = NO;
//Options for
pdfViewer.delegate = self;
pdfViewer.scalesPageToFit = YES;
for (id subview in pdfViewer.subviews)
if ([[subview class] isSubclassOfClass: [UIScrollView class]])
((UIScrollView *)subview).bounces = NO;

Answer 1

Make sure that the pdfViewer delegate is set properly and you will probably need to adjust the loading code.
- (BOOL) webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType; {
/* Add Content Loading Banner */
if (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked) {
[self.view addSubview:linkLoadView];
linkLoadView.alpha = 1.0;
}
/* Handle PDF Opening */
NSURL *url = [request URL];
NSString *urlString = [url absoluteString];
if(webview != pdfViewer)
{
if([urlString rangeOfString:#".pdf"].location == NSNotFound){
return true;
}
else {
NSURL *filePath = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:filePath];
[pdfViewer loadRequest:requestObj];
[self.view addSubview:topView];
[self.view addSubview:linkLoadView];
return false;
}
}
return true;
}