How to get file name in uiimagepickercontroller with Asset library?

Question

I want to get the file name from UIImagepickercontroller.I do not want to use ALAssetLibrary because it is deperecated in iOS 9.Please tell how to use it.I have used below code but it return me imagename as Asset.jpg always for each file.

func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {       
    let originalImage = (info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage)!
    let url = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as! NSURL
    imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(originalImage, 100) as NSData?
    let data = UploadData()
    data.fileName = url.lastPathComponent     
    picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
  }

Answer 1

I will suggest you to use Photos Framework to get the name of the image, below is the code to get name of selected image

func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
    if let imageURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as? URL {
        let result = PHAsset.fetchAssets(withALAssetURLs: [imageURL], options: nil)
        let asset = result.firstObject
        print(asset?.value(forKey: "filename"))

    }

    dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 2

Before iOS 11

func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
    if let imageURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as? URL {
        let result = PHAsset.fetchAssets(withALAssetURLs: [imageURL], options: nil)
        let assetResources = PHAssetResource.assetResources(for: result.firstObject!)

        print(assetResources.first!.originalFilename)
    }

    dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}

After iOS 11

func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
    if let asset = info[UIImagePickerControllerPHAsset] as? PHAsset {
        let assetResources = PHAssetResource.assetResources(for: asset)

        print(assetResources.first!.originalFilename)
    }

    dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 3

Update 6th May 2018

Forced unwrapped optionals sometimes return nil, I think it's because user use Camera to capture a new image instead of selecting one from Photos library. I updated the code to return a generated name when I see nil.

Original answer

This works for me without having to rely on filename key (please excuse for force unwrap optionals :) )

extension MyViewController : UIImagePickerControllerDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate {
    func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
        guard let image = info[UIImagePickerControllerEditedImage] as? UIImage else {
            DDLogDebug("No image chosen")
            return
        }

        if let url = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as? URL {
            let assets = PHAsset.fetchAssets(withALAssetURLs: [url], options: nil)
            if let firstAsset = assets.firstObject,
            let firstResource = PHAssetResource.assetResources(for: firstAsset).first {
                fileName = firstResource.originalFilename
            } else {
                fileName = generateNameForImage()
            }
        } else {
            fileName = generateNameForImage()
        }

        DDLogDebug("File name = \(fileName)")

        dismiss(animated: true)
    }

    func generateNameForImage() -> String {
        return "IMG_random_string"
    }

}

Answer 4

You can try this for iOS 11

 func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
    if let asset = info[UIImagePickerControllerPHAsset] as? PHAsset {
        if let fileName = (asset.value(forKey: "filename")) as? String {
            //Do your stuff here
        }
    }

    picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Make sure you add this NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription to your Infor.plist

Answer 5

import Photos

func getFileName(info: [String : Any]) -> String {

    if let imageURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as? URL {
        let result = PHAsset.fetchAssets(withALAssetURLs: [imageURL], options: nil)
        let asset = result.firstObject
        let fileName = asset?.value(forKey: "filename")
        let fileUrl = URL(string: fileName as! String)
        if let name = fileUrl?.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent {
        print(name)
        return name
        }
    }
    return ""

}

call it inside the method "didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo" like so:

let fileName = getFileName(info: info)

Answer 6

func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [UIImagePickerController.InfoKey : Any]) {
    let selectedFileName = ""
    if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
        if let imageUrl = info[.imageURL] as? URL {
            selectedFileName = imageUrl.lastPathComponent
        }
    } else {
        if let imageURL = info[.referenceURL] as? URL {
            let result = PHAsset.fetchAssets(withALAssetURLs: [imageURL], options: nil)
            if let firstObject = result.firstObject {
                let assetResources = PHAssetResource.assetResources(for: firstObject)
                selectedFileName = assetResources.first?.originalFilename
            }
        }
    }

    picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 7

Code:

func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [NSObject : AnyObject]) {
    let imageURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as NSURL
    let imageName = imageURL.path!.lastPathComponent
    let documentDirectory = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true).first as String
    let localPath = documentDirectory.stringByAppendingPathComponent(imageName)
    let image = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as UIImage
    let data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)
    data.writeToFile(localPath, atomically: true)
    let imageData = NSData(contentsOfFile: localPath)!
    let photoURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: localPath)
    let imageWithData = UIImage(data: imageData)!
    picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 8

  func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) { 

         if let asset = PHAsset.fetchAssets(withALAssetURLs: [info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as! URL],options: nil).firstObject {              

            var resources = PHAssetResource.assetResources(for: asset)

            let orgFilename: String = ((resources[0] as? PHAssetResource)?.originalFilename)!

            print("filename:",orgFilename)
     }
    }

Answer 9

Here is how I did it in swift 4

if let url = info[UIImagePickerController.InfoKey.imageURL] as? URL {
        fileName = url.lastPathComponent
        fileType = url.pathExtension
    }

Answer 10

For me, it is working perfect,

if let imgUrl = info[UIImagePickerControllerImageURL] as? URL{
   let imgName = imgUrl.lastPathComponent
   print(imgName)
   let imgExtension = imgUrl.pathExtension
   print(imgExtension)
}