Attempting to load the view of a view controller while it is deallocating... UISearchController

I have code that creates a UISearchController' in my UIVIew'sviewDidLoad`.

 self.resultSearchController = ({
        let controller = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
        controller.searchResultsUpdater = self
        controller.searchBar.delegate = self
        controller.dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation = false
        controller.searchBar.sizeToFit()
        controller.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation = false //prevent search bar from moving
        controller.searchBar.placeholder = "Search for song"

        self.myTableView.tableHeaderView = controller.searchBar

        return controller

    })()

Right after this closure finishes, this warning appears in the console:

Attempting to load the view of a view controller while it is deallocating is not allowed and may result in undefined behavior (<UISearchController: 0x154d39700>)

I don't get what I am doing wrong. This similar question is not really my situation (At least I don't think so). What is going on?

Solution 1:

UISearchController's view has to be removed from its superview before deallocate. (guess it is a bug)

Objective-C...

-(void)dealloc { 
    [searchController.view removeFromSuperview]; // It works!
}

Swift 3...

deinit {
    self.searchController.view.removeFromSuperview()
}

I struggled with this issue for a couple of weeks. ^^

Solution 2:

Solved! It was a simple fix. I changed this code

class ViewController: UITableViewController, UISearchResultsUpdating, UISearchBarDelegate {

    var resultSearchController = UISearchController()

to this:

 class ViewController: UITableViewController, UISearchResultsUpdating, UISearchBarDelegate {

    var resultSearchController: UISearchController!

This fixes the problem.

Solution 3:

Here is the Swift version that worked for me (similar toJJHs answer):

deinit{
    if let superView = resultSearchController.view.superview
    {
        superView.removeFromSuperview()
    }
}