Get SSID in Swift 2

Question

Im trying to use this code to get SSID

import Foundation
import SystemConfiguration.CaptiveNetwork

public class SSID {
    class func getSSID() -> String{
        var currentSSID = ""
        let interfaces = CNCopySupportedInterfaces()
        if interfaces != nil {
            let interfacesArray = interfaces.takeRetainedValue() as [String : AnyObject]
            if interfacesArray.count > 0 {
                let interfaceName = interfacesArray[0] as String
                let unsafeInterfaceData = CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo(interfaceName)
                if unsafeInterfaceData != nil {
                    let interfaceData = unsafeInterfaceData.takeRetainedValue() as Dictionary!
                    currentSSID = interfaceData[kCNNetworkInfoKeySSID] as! String
                    let ssiddata = NSString(data:interfaceData[kCNNetworkInfoKeySSIDData]! as! NSData, encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding) as! String
                    // ssid data from hex
                    print(ssiddata)
                }
            }
        }
        return currentSSID
    }
}

But in getting an error in this line let interfacesArray = interfaces.takeRetainedValue() as [String : AnyObject]

The error is

Value of type 'CFArray?' has no member 'takeRetainedValue'

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

All the presented at the moment solutions seems rather complex, with ugly unsafe casts.

I was able to craft such a concise solution (with no black magic at all):

import Foundation
import SystemConfiguration.CaptiveNetwork

func getSSID() -> String? {
    var ssid: String?
    if let interfaces = CNCopySupportedInterfaces() as NSArray? {
        for interface in interfaces {
            if let interfaceInfo = CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo(interface as! CFString) as NSDictionary? {
                ssid = interfaceInfo[kCNNetworkInfoKeySSID as String] as? String
                break
            }
        }
    }
    return ssid
}

Answer 2

This may help you (tested on Swift 2):

import Foundation
import SystemConfiguration.CaptiveNetwork

public class SSID {
    class func fetchSSIDInfo() -> String {
        var currentSSID = ""
        if let interfaces = CNCopySupportedInterfaces() {
            for i in 0..<CFArrayGetCount(interfaces) {
                let interfaceName: UnsafePointer<Void> = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(interfaces, i)
                let rec = unsafeBitCast(interfaceName, AnyObject.self)
                let unsafeInterfaceData = CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo("\(rec)")
                if unsafeInterfaceData != nil {
                    let interfaceData = unsafeInterfaceData! as Dictionary!
                    currentSSID = interfaceData["SSID"] as! String
                }
            }
        }
        return currentSSID
    }
}

I took and adapted the code from Ray Wenderlich's site (once was here: Retrieve SSID in iOS9 but now the specific thread has been removed from site)

iOS 12

You must enable Access WiFi Information from capabilities.

Important To use this function in iOS 12 and later, enable the Access WiFi Information capability for your app in Xcode. When you enable this capability, Xcode automatically adds the Access WiFi Information entitlement to your entitlements file and App ID. Documentation link

Swift4.2

public class SSID {
    class func fetchSSIDInfo() -> String {
        var currentSSID = ""
        if let interfaces = CNCopySupportedInterfaces() {
            for i in 0..<CFArrayGetCount(interfaces) {
                let interfaceName: UnsafeRawPointer = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(interfaces, i)
                let rec = unsafeBitCast(interfaceName, to: AnyObject.self)
                let unsafeInterfaceData = CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo("\(rec)" as CFString)
                if let interfaceData = unsafeInterfaceData as? [String: AnyObject] {
                    currentSSID = interfaceData["SSID"] as! String
                    let BSSID = interfaceData["BSSID"] as! String
                    let SSIDDATA = interfaceData["SSIDDATA"] as! String
                    debugPrint("ssid=\(currentSSID), BSSID=\(BSSID), SSIDDATA=\(SSIDDATA)")
                }
            }
        }
        return currentSSID
    }
}

Answer 3

https://stackoverflow.com/users/3108877/rob's answer -- shorter version

func getSSID() -> String? {
        if let interface = (CNCopySupportedInterfaces() as? [String])?.first,
            let unsafeInterfaceData = CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo(interface as CFString) as? [String: Any],
            let ssid = unsafeInterfaceData["SSID"] as? String {
            return ssid
        }
        return nil
    }