Clone Cookie Jar / Get all Cookies from Cookie Store

[seanstrom]

Based on a discussion here request/request#1458
We have a situation where we want to clone a CookieJar. I'm not completely clear on the "why" we want to do this, but we started to explore the "how". I'm wondering if anyone here has any recommendation on how to clone a CookieJar or at least how to get all the cookies from a CookieJar so we can manually clone it.

[lucaswxp]

+1

I need to be able to serialize a cookie jar and recreate it later in another server. Is this possible? Getting all the cookies from a jar is a start..

Right now I'm trying to inspect the jar.store property, but without much success.

[lucaswxp]

After some time trying, I came up with these three functions:

var Cookie = tough.Cookie,
      CookieJar = tough.CookieJar;

function cookieJarToJSON(jar){
  return JSON.stringify(jar.store.idx);
}

function cookieJarFromJSON(json){
  var idx = JSON.parse(json),
      jar = new CookieJar;

  for(var i in idx){
    for(var o in idx[i]){
      for(var cookieKey in idx[i][o]){
        var c = idx[i][o][cookieKey];
        jar.setCookieSync(new Cookie(c).toString(), {hostname: c.domain, path: c.path});
      }
    }
  }

  return jar;
}

function cookieJarClone(jar){
  return cookieJarFromJSON(cookieJarToJSON(jar));
}

If you want a clone of a jar, just do clonedJar = cookieJarClone(jar), also if you need to store a jar as string, use cookieJarToJSON(jar) and to deserialize cookieJarFromJSON(str).

[inikulin]

Seems can be implemented in context of #24

[inikulin]

PR is welcome, BTW

[stash-sfdc]

I'm going to try implement a jar-to-JSON feature today.

[inikulin]

Fixed via #42, published as v2.0.0