UITableViewController+Snippets.swift

// Snippets UITableViewController+Snippets.swift
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import UIKit

extension UITableViewController {

  /// Selects a table view row and notifies the table view delegate, if
  /// present. Normally users select rows; not usually table view
  /// controllers. This method does the same thing but programmatically.
  ///
  /// Take care not to recurse when using this method. Avoid invoking it within
  /// a table view delegate method in response, directly or indirectly, to a
  /// table row selection event. The implementation does not know, nor can know,
  /// that the delegate has already been invoked.
  public func selectRow(at indexPath: IndexPath, animated: Bool, scrollPosition: UITableViewScrollPosition) {
    tableView.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: animated, scrollPosition: scrollPosition)
    tableView.delegate?.tableView?(tableView, didSelectRowAt: indexPath)
  }

}