Set up a UISearchDisplayController for a UITableViewController without a UISearchBar

Question

I find that the only way to build a UISearchDisplayController is to also build a UISearchBar onto my UITableViewController.

However, I don't want a UISearchBar to show up, and would like to initiate the search via a button press instead.

Is this possible?

I tried activating the UISearchDisplayController on button press:

- (void)searchButtonPressed:(id)sender{
  [self.searchDisplayController setActive:YES animated:YES];
}

This "works", but the searchDisplayController that shows up has no UISearchBar. (Obviously).

Answer 1

I ended up just setting the hidden field to NO and YES when the search display controller is shown and dismissed.