oatmeal

A lightweight cookie manager for both the browser and nodejs.

Why another cookie manager?

light as a feather

1.59kb minified, 436 bytes gzipped

flexible expires

oatmeal.cookie("raisin",      "yumyum", { seconds: 50 })
oatmeal.cookie("chewy",       "yumyum", { minutes: 10 })
oatmeal.cookie("thick",       "yumyum", { hours: 12 })
oatmeal.cookie("soft",        "yumyum", { days: 15 })
oatmeal.cookie("Specialty's", "yum!",   { months: 3 })
oatmeal.cookie("thin",        "meh",    { years: 1 })
oatmeal.cookie("crunchy",     "meh!",   { expires: new Date() })

flexible might be an understatement

oatmeal.cookie("raisin", "yummy", { months: 3, days: 10 })
oatmeal.cookie("raisin", "yummy", { months: 3, days: 10, seconds: 10 })
oatmeal.cookie("raisin", "yummy", { expires: myDate, days: 10 })

works with your objects, not against

var penelope = {
    age: 26,
    height: "6'1",
    beautiful: "yes"
}
oatmeal.cookie("person", penelope)

Usage

options

Some of the methods take an optional options configuration object

• expires expiration date of the cookie (Date object)
• seconds expiration in seconds. Combinable with other time options.
• minutes expiration in minutes. Combinable with other options.
• hours expiration in hours. Combinable with other options.
• days expiration in days. Combinable with other options.
• months expiration in months (1 = 30 days). Combinable with other options.
• years expiration in years (1 = 365 days). Combinable with other options.
• path path of the cookie, default is /.
• domain domain of the cookie.
• secure specify true to add secure to the cookie string.

A couple of notes. Without expires, all of the timing is relative to the current time. With expires, the other timing options are added to the date specified.

Timing options can be combined together, e.g., you can specify months: 1, days: 3 to get an expiration date of one month and three days from now.

~ Cookies in yur browser ~

oatmeal.cookie(name, value [, options])

Sets a cookie named name to value. Note that value can be a string, boolean, number or object. The value will always be encoded and JSONized.

oatmeal.cookie(name)

Gets the value for a cookie called name.

oatmeal.bake(name, value [, options])

Similar to oatmeal.cookie(name, value) except that it avoids setting the actual cookie and returns the properly formatted cookie string instead, e.g., name=key; path=/; secure. This is mainly useful on the node side.

oatmeal.munch(name)

Deletes the cookie with the specified name.

oatmeal.munchMunch

Deletes all cookies.

oatmeal.source(string)

Specifies a string to parse for cookies. This is mainly useful on the node side.

~ Cookies in yur nodez ~

You can use oatmeal in nodejs as well, albeit in a limited fashion.

oatmeal.bake(name, value [, options])

Generates a properly formatted cookie string for the given parameters. It's up to you to actually set the response header, i.e., Set-Cookie.

oatmeal.source(string)

Specifies the string to parse for cookies. You can grab this from the request headers.

oatmeal.cookie(name)

Gets the value for a cookie called name.

Ender

This library works with Ender!

ender build oatmeal

When used with ender, the method names are changed up a bit because we're on a global namespace object ($).

• $.cookie = oatmeal.cookie
• $.deleteCookie = oatmeal.munch
• $.deleteCookies = oatmeal.munchMunch
• $.serializeCookie = oatmeal.bake
• $.useCookieSource = oatmeal.source

Othewise, everything else should work the same. You can also require the oatmeal library.

var oatmeal = require('oatmeal')

Support

This library depends on JSON.parse and JSON.stringify. This is natively supported in browsers Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox 3.1+, Safari 4+, Chrome 3+. If you are unfortunate enough to have to care about older browsers, it's up to you to polyfill the behavior.

Release History

• 0.1.3 - fix bug when document.cookie is empty
• 0.1.2 - don't expose refillJar method anymore
• 0.1.1 - fixed nodejs API
• 0.1.0 - first version