Swift read userInfo of remote notification

Question

I implemented a function to open an AlertView when I receive a remote notification like this:

func application(application: UIApplication, didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [NSObject : AnyObject]){
        var notifiAlert = UIAlertView()
        var NotificationMessage : AnyObject? =  userInfo["alert"]
        notifiAlert.title = "TITLE"
        notifiAlert.message = NotificationMessage as? String
        notifiAlert.addButtonWithTitle("OK")
        notifiAlert.show()
}

But NotificationMessage is always nil.

My json payload looks like this:

{"aps":{"alert":"Testmessage","badge":"1"}}

I am using Xcode 6, Swift and I am developing for iOS8. I searched hours now, but didn't find any useful information. The Notifications works perfectly.. and if I click it, the alertview opens. My problem is, that I am not able to get the data out of userInfo.

Solution 1

The root level item of the userInfo dictionary is "aps", not "alert".

Try the following:

if let aps = userInfo["aps"] as? NSDictionary {
    if let alert = aps["alert"] as? NSDictionary {
        if let message = alert["message"] as? NSString {
           //Do stuff
        }
    } else if let alert = aps["alert"] as? NSString {
        //Do stuff
    }
}

See Push Notification Documentation

Solution 2

Swift 5

struct Push: Decodable {
    let aps: APS
    
    struct APS: Decodable {
        let alert: Alert
        
        struct Alert: Decodable {
            let title: String
            let body: String
        }
    }
    
    init(decoding userInfo: [AnyHashable : Any]) throws {
        let data = try JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: userInfo, options: .prettyPrinted)
        self = try JSONDecoder().decode(Push.self, from: data)
    }
}

Usage:

guard let push = try? Push(decoding: userInfo) else { return }
let alert = UIAlertController(title: push.aps.alert.title, message: push.aps.alert.body, preferredStyle: .alert)

Solution 3

Method (Swift 4):

func extractUserInfo(userInfo: [AnyHashable : Any]) -> (title: String, body: String) {
    var info = (title: "", body: "")
    guard let aps = userInfo["aps"] as? [String: Any] else { return info }
    guard let alert = aps["alert"] as? [String: Any] else { return info }
    let title = alert["title"] as? String ?? ""
    let body = alert["body"] as? String ?? ""
    info = (title: title, body: body)
    return info
}

Usage:

let info = self.extractUserInfo(userInfo: userInfo)
print(info.title)
print(info.body)

Solution 4

For me, when I send the message from Accengage, the following code works -

private func extractMessage(fromPushNotificationUserInfo userInfo:[NSObject: AnyObject]) -> String? {
    var message: String?
    if let aps = userInfo["aps"] as? NSDictionary {
        if let alert = aps["alert"] as? NSDictionary {
            if let alertMessage = alert["body"] as? String {
                message = alertMessage              
            }
        }
    }
    return message
}

The only difference from Craing Stanford's answer is the key I used to extract message from alert instance which is body which is different. See below for more clearification -

if let alertMessage = alert["message"] as? NSString

vs

if let alertMessage = alert["body"] as? String

Solution 5

This is my version for objC

if (userInfo[@"aps"]){
    NSDictionary *aps = userInfo[@"aps"];
    if (aps[@"alert"]){
        NSObject *alert = aps[@"alert"];
        if ([alert isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]){
            NSDictionary *alertDict = aps[@"alert"];
            if (alertDict[@"message"]){
                NSString *message = alertDict[@"message"];
            }
        }
        else if (aps[@"alert"]){
            NSString *alert = aps[@"alert"];
        }
    }
}

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Comments

[Andrew Smith]

How would this look in objective C++?

[lozflan]

Its good that you've informed OP the root level item is aps and not alert in the userInfo dic .... but how does one find out the correct keys and dictionary structure that is within an iOS system sent notification userInfo dictionary. in swift 4 documentation i can see notification names all standardised within Notification.Name but i can't see any documentation saying ... this is the userInfo dictionary sent with a particular notification and here are the keys..?

[Saurabh]

is it possible to add more parameters in aps?