Detect when a presented view controller is dismissed

Question

Let's say, I have an instance of a view controller class called VC2. In VC2, there is a "cancel" button that will dismiss itself. But I can't detect or receive any callback when the "cancel" button got trigger. VC2 is a black box.

A view controller (called VC1) will present VC2 using presentViewController:animated:completion: method.

What options does VC1 have to detect when VC2 was dismissed?

Edit: From the comment of @rory mckinnel and answer of @NicolasMiari, I tried the following:

In VC2:

-(void)cancelButton:(id)sender
{
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^{

    }];
//    [super dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^{
//        
//    }];
}

In VC1:

//-(void)dismissViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)flag completion:(void (^)(void))completion
- (void)dismissViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)flag
                           completion:(void (^ _Nullable)(void))completion
{
    NSLog(@"%s ", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
    [super dismissViewControllerAnimated:flag completion:completion];
//    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^{
//        
//    }];
}

But the dismissViewControllerAnimated in the VC1 was not getting called.

Answer 1

According to the docs, the presenting controller is responsible for the actual dismiss. When the presented controller dismisses itself, it will ask the presenter to do it for it. So if you override dismissViewControllerAnimated in your VC1 controller I believe it will get called when you hit cancel on VC2. Detect the dismiss and then call the super classes version which will do the actual dismiss.

As found from discussion this does not seem to work. Rather than rely on the underlying mechanism, instead of calling dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion on VC2 itself, call dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion on self.presentingViewController in VC2. This will then call your override directly.

A better approach altogether would be to have VC2 provide a block which is called when the modal controller has completed.

So in VC2, provide a block property say with the name onDoneBlock.

In VC1 you present as follows:

• In VC1, create VC2

• Set the done handler for VC2 as: VC2.onDoneBlock={[VC2 dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil]};

• Present the VC2 controller as normal using [self presentViewController:VC2 animated:YES completion:nil];

• In VC2, in the cancel target action call self.onDoneBlock();

The result is VC2 tells whoever raises it that it is done. You can extend the onDoneBlock to have arguments which indicate if the modal comleted, cancelled, succeeded etc....