Cookie.SmartCookie

Class SmartCookie

object --+ | dict --+ | BaseCookie --+ | SmartCookie

SmartCookie SmartCookie supports arbitrary objects as cookie values. If the object is a string, then it is quoted. If the object is not a string, however, then SmartCookie will use cPickle to serialize the object into a string representation.

Note: Large cookie values add overhead because they must be retransmitted on every HTTP transaction.

Note: HTTP has a 2k limit on the size of a cookie. This class does not check for this limit, so be careful!!!

Instance Methods

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new empty dictionary

__init__(self, input=None)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

value_decode(self, val)
real_value, coded_value = value_decode(STRING) Called prior to setting a cookie's value from the network representation.

value_encode(self, val)
real_value, coded_value = value_encode(VALUE) Called prior to setting a cookie's value from the dictionary representation.

Inherited from BaseCookie: __repr__, __setitem__, __str__, js_output, load, output

Inherited from dict: __cmp__, __contains__, __delitem__, __eq__, __ge__, __getattribute__, __getitem__, __gt__, __hash__, __iter__, __le__, __len__, __lt__, __ne__, __new__, clear, copy, fromkeys, get, has_key, items, iteritems, iterkeys, itervalues, keys, pop, popitem, setdefault, update, values

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __setattr__

init(self, input=None)
(Constructor)

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Returns: new empty dictionary
Overrides: object.__init__: (inherited documentation)

value_decode(self, val)

real_value, coded_value = value_decode(STRING) Called prior to setting a cookie's value from the network representation. The VALUE is the value read from HTTP header. Override this function to modify the behavior of cookies.

Overrides: BaseCookie.value_decode: (inherited documentation)

value_encode(self, val)

real_value, coded_value = value_encode(VALUE) Called prior to setting a cookie's value from the dictionary representation. The VALUE is the value being assigned. Override this function to modify the behavior of cookies.

Overrides: BaseCookie.value_encode: (inherited documentation)

Class SmartCookie

__init__(self, input=None) (Constructor)

value_decode(self, val)

value_encode(self, val)

init(self, input=None)
(Constructor)