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I'm trying to use inheritance in UIViewController where base class has XIB in storyboard. I'm troubling with initiating different children classes with that XIB.

I cannot use XIB file separately instead of storyboard because it has static UITableViewCells.

So here is how I'm managing it currently using object_setClass method in SWIFT:
Parent Class:

class MeetingViewController: UITableViewController {



    private(set) var project: CDProject?

    private(set) var meeting: CDMeeting?



    static func initWith(project: CDProject?, meeting: CDMeeting?) -> MeetingViewController {

        let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Meeting", bundle: nil)

        let meetingVC = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "MeetingVCId") as! MeetingViewController

        meetingVC.project = project

        meetingVC.meeting = meeting

        return meetingVC

    }

}

Child Class-1:

class MeetingInfoViewController: MeetingViewController {



    static func initWith(meeting: CDMeeting) -> MeetingInfoViewController {

        let meetingVC = MeetingViewController.initWith(project: nil, meeting: meeting)

        object_setClass(meetingVC, MeetingInfoViewController.self)

        return meetingVC as! MeetingInfoViewController

    }

}

Child Class-2:

class MeetingCreateViewController: MeetingViewController {



    static func initWith(project: CDProject) -> MeetingCreateViewController {

        let meetingVC = MeetingViewController.initWith(project: project, meeting: nil)

        object_setClass(meetingVC, MeetingCreateViewController.self)

        return meetingVC as! MeetingCreateViewController

    }

}

This is working very fine, not any issue; but I'm just curious if:

1 there's any other way to handle this scenario?

2 this approach has any side-effects?

3 this can be improved somehow?

Also feel free to point out other things than initialisation!