Class CookieParser

java.lang.Object
org.simpleframework.util.parse.Parser
org.simpleframework.http.parse.CookieParser
All Implemented Interfaces:
Iterable<Cookie>
public class CookieParser extends Parser implements Iterable<Cookie>
CookieParser is used to parse the cookie header. The cookie header is one of the headers that is used by the HTTP state management mechanism. The Cookie header is the header that is sent from the client to the server in response to a Set-Cookie header. The syntax of the Cookie header as taken from RFC 2109, HTTP State Management Mechanism. 

 cookie          =       "Cookie:" cookie-version
                         1*((";" | ",") cookie-value)
 cookie-value    =       NAME "=" VALUE [";" path] [";" domain]
 cookie-version  =       "$Version" "=" value
 NAME            =       attr
 VALUE           =       value
 path            =       "$Path" "=" value
 domain          =       "$Domain" "=" value
The cookie header may consist of several cookies. Each cookie can be extracted from the header by examining the it syntax of the cookie header. The syntax of the cookie header is defined in RFC 2109.

Each cookie has a $Version attribute followed by multiple cookies. Each contains a name and a value, followed by an optional $Path and $Domain attribute. This will parse a given cookie header and return each cookie extracted as a Cookie object.

Author:
Niall Gallagher

  • Constructor Details

    • CookieParser

      public CookieParser()
      Create a CookieParser that contains no cookies. the instance will return false for the hasNext method. cookies may be parsed using this instance by using the parse method.

    • CookieParser

      public CookieParser(String header)
      This is primarily a convineance constructor. This will parse the String given to extract the cookies. This could be achived by calling the default no-arg constructor and then using the instance to invoke the parse method on that String.
      Parameters:
      header - a String containing a cookie value

  • Method Details

    • init

      protected void init()
      Resets the cookie and the buffer variables for this CookieParser. It is used to set the state of the parser to start parsing a new cookie.
      Specified by:
      init in class Parser

    • parse

      protected void parse()
      This will extract the next Cookie from the buffer. If all the characters in the buffer have already been examined then this method will simply do nothing. Otherwise this will parse the remainder of the buffer and (if it follows RFC 2109) produce a Cookie.
      Specified by:
      parse in class Parser

    • skip

      protected boolean skip(String text)
      This is used to skip an arbitrary String within the char buf. It checks the length of the String first to ensure that it will not go out of bounds. A comparison is then made with the buffers contents and the String if the reigon in the buffer matched the String then the offset within the buffer is increased by the String's length so that it has effectively skipped it.

      This skip method will ignore all of the whitespace text. This will also skip trailing spaces within the the input text and all spaces within the source text. For example if the input was the string "s omete xt" and the source was "some text to skip" then the result of a skip ignoring spaces would be "to skip" in the source string, as the trailing spaces are also eaten by this.

      Overrides:
      skip in class Parser
      Parameters:
      text - this is the String value to be skipped
      Returns:
      true if the String was skipped

    • iterator

      public Iterator<Cookie> iterator()
      This is used to acquire the cookie values from the provided the provided source text. This allows the cookie parser to be used within a for each loop to parse out the values of a cookie one by one so that they may be used or stored.
      Specified by:
      iterator in interface Iterable<Cookie>
      Returns:
      this returns an iterator for extracting cookie value

    • reset

      public void reset()
      This is used so that the collection of Cookies can be reiterated. This allows the collection to be reused. The reset method will invoke the super classes init method. This will reinitialize this Parser so the cookie will be reparsed.