rjstelling / hostess.swift

A Swift implementation of NSHost that works on iOS, OS X and tvOS. Hostess.swift is safe to use in a framework because it does not require a bridging header. Hostess is Swift 4.0 (or newer) only and replaces the Swift 2.x only Host.swift.

UPDATE 2019: HOSTESS CANNOT READ THE SSID AS OF IOS 13

A Swift implementation of NSHost (Host in Swift) that works on iOS, OS X and tvOS.

Hostess.swift is safe to use in a framework because it does not require a bridging header.

Usage

Carthage

Adding Hostess to your Xcode project using Carthage is very straightforward:

github "rjstelling/Hostess.swift"

Run carthage to download and build the framework.

Cocopods

Installing Hostess using Cocoapods, add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'Hostess', '~> 1.0'

Then run the pod install command.

Motivation

Hostess.swift was created because NSHost is unavailable on iOS and CFHost does not offer the full functionality of it OS X counterpart.

In addition, those developers hoping for a pure-Swift solution were out of luck without using a bridging header.

Hostess.swift does not use a bridging header, so is safe to use in Framework development. It is 100% Swift and tries to maintain as much type safety as the low level networking C API will allow.

Example

let hostess = Hostess()
let deviceIP = hostess.addresses.first
print("IP: \(deviceIP)") // Will print a dot-separated IP address, e.g: 17.24.2.55

What happend to Host.swift?

Host.swift is still available but is considered end of life and I will not be maintaining it.

With the switch to Swift 3 Apple removed the NS prefix from many Foundation classes. This caused Host to clash with the renamed NSHost.

A new name was required... Hostess was chosen.

hostess.swift's Issues

no CocoaPod version 1.0

After I copied the line from your Git readme into my Podfile, output:

% pod update
Update all pods
Updating local specs repositories
Analyzing dependencies
[!] CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "Hostess":
In Podfile:
Hostess (~> 1.0)

None of your spec sources contain a spec satisfying the dependency: Hostess (~> 1.0).

You have either:

• mistyped the name or version.
• not added the source repo that hosts the Podspec to your Podfile.

Modify the Hosts file

is there some way to modify the hosts file in iOS