Generic UIViewController subclass

Elsewhere.swift

// usage
let pop = PopoverViewController<SomeViewController>()
self.showViewController(pop) // adds pop.view as a subview (stepping over this line reveals that pop.view becomes non-nil)

// -viewDidLoad is not called...

PopoverViewController.swift

class PopoverViewController<ContentViewControllerType: UIViewController>: UIViewController {
	
	var omitted: Whatever?
	
	// I'm not entirely sure why I need these initializers, considering I have one optional var property...
	override init(nibName nibNameOrNil: String?, bundle nibBundleOrNil: NSBundle?) {
		super.init(nibName: nibNameOrNil, bundle: nibBundleOrNil)
	}

	required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
		fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
	}
	
	convenience override init() {
		self.init(nibName: nil, bundle: nil)
	}

	// Not called!
	override func viewDidLoad() {
		super.viewDidLoad()
		self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.orangeColor()
	}
}

Hi,
I got the same problem.

I am trying to create a class of type MyClass:UIViewController
ViewDidLoad is not called. Same for loadView, it's not called.

Did you understand why ?

I am doing something similar:

class SimpleListViewController<ItemType>: UITableViewController {
...
}

let listVC = SimpleListViewController<State>()
listVC.items = states
listVC.title = "SELECT STATE"
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: listVC)

and I get Unrecognized selector -[Swift._IndirectArrayBuffer setTitle:] on both the title line and the navController line whichever comes first. Related you think? Did you ever figure this out?