com.intellectualcrafters.json

Class Cookie

java.lang.Object

com.intellectualcrafters.json.Cookie

public class Cookie
extends java.lang.Object

Convert a web browser cookie specification to a JSONObject and back. JSON and Cookies are both notations for name/value pairs.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Cookie()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static java.lang.String	escape(java.lang.String string) Produce a copy of a string in which the characters '+', '%', '=', ';' and control characters are replaced with "%hh".
static JSONObject	toJSONObject(java.lang.String string) Convert a cookie specification string into a JSONObject.
static java.lang.String	toString(JSONObject jo) Convert a JSONObject into a cookie specification string.
static java.lang.String	unescape(java.lang.String string) Convert %hh sequences to single characters, and convert plus to space.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Cookie

public Cookie()

Method Detail

escape

public static java.lang.String escape(java.lang.String string)

Produce a copy of a string in which the characters '+', '%', '=', ';' and control characters are replaced with "%hh". This is a gentle form of URL encoding, attempting to cause as little distortion to the string as possible. The characters '=' and ';' are meta characters in cookies. By convention, they are escaped using the URL-encoding. This is only a convention, not a standard. Often, cookies are expected to have encoded values. We encode '=' and ';' because we must. We encode '%' and '+' because they are meta characters in URL encoding.

Parameters:

string - The source string.

Returns:

The escaped result.

toJSONObject

public static JSONObject toJSONObject(java.lang.String string)
                               throws JSONException

Convert a cookie specification string into a JSONObject. The string will contain a name value pair separated by '='. The name and the value will be unescaped, possibly converting '+' and '%' sequences. The cookie properties may follow, separated by ';', also represented as name=value (except the secure property, which does not have a value). The name will be stored under the key "name", and the value will be stored under the key "value". This method does not do checking or validation of the parameters. It only converts the cookie string into a JSONObject.

Parameters:

string - The cookie specification string.

Returns:

A JSONObject containing "name", "value", and possibly other members.

Throws:

JSONException

toString

public static java.lang.String toString(JSONObject jo)
                                 throws JSONException

Convert a JSONObject into a cookie specification string. The JSONObject must contain "name" and "value" members. If the JSONObject contains "expires", "domain", "path", or "secure" members, they will be appended to the cookie specification string. All other members are ignored.

Parameters:

jo - A JSONObject

Returns:

A cookie specification string

Throws:

JSONException

unescape

public static java.lang.String unescape(java.lang.String string)

Convert %hh sequences to single characters, and convert plus to space.

Parameters:

string - A string that may contain + (plus) and %hh sequences.

Returns:

The unescaped string.