On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Nicholas Zakas <nza...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> I like the idea of creating an easier way to deal with cookies (which is why
> I wrote the YUI Cookie utility way back when). The thing that seems to be
> missing in your proposed API is what I consider to be the most common use
> case: retrieving the value of a single cookie. There's not many times when I
> need to get every single cookie that's available on the page, but there are
> plenty of times when I want to check the value of a single cookie. Using your
> API, getting the value of a single cookie with a known name becomes:
>
> document.getCookies(function(cookies) {
> for (var i=0; i < cookies.length; ++i){
> if(cookies[i].name == "my_cookie_name"){
> doSomething(cookies[i]);
> }
> }
> });
>
> That seems like a lot of work just to retrieve a single cookie value.
The problem is there can be multiple cookies with the same name for a
given document. The YUI Cookie utility seems to assume there's only
one. We could add a facility for filtering the results of getCookies,
but that's easy enough to do correctly in JavaScript.
Adam
