BBjCookie::setValue

Description

In BBj 12.00 and higher, this method sets a new value to a cookie after the cookie is created. If you use a binary value, you may want to use BASE64 encoding. *

With Version 0 cookies, values should not contain white space, brackets, parentheses, equals signs, commas, double quotes, slashes, question marks, at signs, colons, and semicolons. Empty values may not behave the same way on all browsers.

Syntax

Return Value	Method
void	setValue(string `value`)

Parameters

Parameter	Description
value	A String specifying the new value.

Return Value

None.

Example

The example below shows setting the value for a BBjCookie of a within a BBjServlet.

rem 'Obtain the instance of the BBjAPI object

let myAPI! = BBjAPI()
MyServlet! = new MyServlet()

data!.setCallback(data!.ON_WEB_CONNECTION, myServlet!, "myMethod")

process_events
class public MyServlet
    method public void myMethod(BBjServletEvent p_event!)
        let chan = UNT
        request! = p_event!.getHttpRequest()
        response! = p_event!.getHttpResponse()
        response!.setContentType("text/html")
        cookie! = response!.addCookie("MyCookie")
        cookie!.setValue("My cookie data")
        cookie!.setPath("/servlet/MyServlet")
        cookie!.setDomain("www.wibble.com")
        cookie!.setMaxAge(3600)
        cookie!.setSecure(0)
        cookie!.setVersion(1)
        cookie!.setComment("comment)
        open (chan)"JSERVLET"
        print (chan)"<html><body><h1>Hello BBj!</h1>"
        print (chan)"</body></html>"
        close (chan)
    methodend
classend

See Also

BBxServletContext

BBxServletResponse

BBxServletRequest