How can I convert my device token (NSData) into an

Question

I am implementing push notifications. I'd like to save my APNS Token as a String.

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application
didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)newDeviceToken
{
    NSString *tokenString = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[newDeviceToken bytes]]; //[[NSString alloc]initWithData:newDeviceToken encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    NSLog(@"%@", tokenString);
    NSLog(@"%@", newDeviceToken);
}

The first line of code prints null. the second prints the token. How can I get my newDeviceToken as an NSString?

Answer 1

Swift:

let tokenString = deviceToken.description.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("[ <>]", withString: "", options: .RegularExpressionSearch, range: nil)

Answer 2

For those who want in Swift 3 and most easier method

func extractTokenFromData(deviceToken:Data) -> String {
    let token = deviceToken.reduce("", {$0 + String(format: "%02X", $1)})
    return token.uppercased();
}

Answer 3

What about one line solution?

Objective C

NSString *token = [[data.description componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[[NSCharacterSet alphanumericCharacterSet]invertedSet]]componentsJoinedByString:@""];

Swift

let token = data.description.componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.alphanumericCharacterSet().invertedSet).joinWithSeparator("")

Answer 4

use this :

NSString * deviceTokenString = [[[[deviceToken description]
                         stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @"<" withString: @""] 
                        stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @">" withString: @""] 
                       stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @" " withString: @""];

NSLog(@"The generated device token string is : %@",deviceTokenString);

Answer 5

Someone Helped me with this.I am just passing along

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)devToken {

    const unsigned *tokenBytes = [deviceToken bytes];
    NSString *hexToken = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%08x%08x%08x%08x%08x%08x%08x%08x",
                         ntohl(tokenBytes[0]), ntohl(tokenBytes[1]), ntohl(tokenBytes[2]),
                         ntohl(tokenBytes[3]), ntohl(tokenBytes[4]), ntohl(tokenBytes[5]),
                         ntohl(tokenBytes[6]), ntohl(tokenBytes[7])];

    [[MyModel sharedModel] setApnsToken:hexToken];
}

Answer 6

NSString *tokenString = [[newDeviceToken description] stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"[<> ]" withString:@"" options:NSRegularExpressionSearch range:NSMakeRange(0, [[newDeviceToken description] length])];