org.apache.tapestry.json
Class Cookie

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.tapestry.json.Cookie

public final class Cookie
extends Object

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

Version:

0.1

Author:

JSON.org

Method Summary

static String	escape(String string) Produce a copy of a string in which the characters '+', '%', '=', ';' and control characters are replaced with "%hh".
static JSONObject	toJSONObject(String string) Convert a cookie specification string into a JSONObject.
static String	toString(JSONObject o) Convert a JSONObject into a cookie specification string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

escape

public static String escape(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(String string)
                               throws ParseException

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:

ParseException

toString

public static String toString(JSONObject o)

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:

o - A JSONObject

Returns:

A cookie specification string