Infinite Scroll / Only 1 (or 2) VC?

[stuffmc]

There are a lot of places where you have Asserts to check that the current VC is not the same as the previous. Is there a reason? I'm in the situation where I want to show the same "data" over and over if there's only one. If I create a new VC everytime, it means I enter 3 times in my viewDidLoad. Same goes with only 2 records, I'll enter twice in the "next" and "previous" which would be the same. To schematize:

| A | A | A | — will enter 3 times in viewDidLoad for A if I want to comply to the NSAsserts
| A | B | A | — will enter twice for B.

I've tried ignoring (commenting) those Asserts, but then I have a blank page instead of the actual first VC. I can swipe to the second though.

What I did is

- (UIViewController *)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pvc viewControllerBeforeViewController:(DataViewController *)vc
{
    if (self.modelController.pageData.count == 1) {
        return vc;
    }
...

My guess is that it's if I do so, the VC gets "moved" to the left every time, so it doesn't appear in the first place. Maybe I could also have my viewDidLoad code to be only started when the view is actually shown — which is not viewDid/WillAppear since that gets triggered at the beginning.