Question

I use httpclient along with cookiestore to keep my session, now I want to use the same session on the next activity, I’m using api 8 so I can’t use cookiemanager. Is it possible? If only I could somehow send the cookie list through, eg:

Intent i = new Intent(this, Login.class);
i.putExtra("domain", domain);
//need to get the following list across
List<Cookie> cookies = cookieStore.getCookies();
//i.putMyDamnCookies("cookies",cookies);
startActivity(i);

Any idea how I could achieve this?

Answer 1

store your List as an array of strings and pass it to in an intent to next activity like this:

String[] cookieArray = new String[cookies.size()];
            //copy your List of Strings into the Array 
            int i=0;
            for(Cookie c : cookies ){
                cookieArray[i]=c.toString();
                i++;
             }
            //then pass it in your intent
            Intent intent = new Intent(this, Login.class);
            intent.putExtra("cookieArray", cookieArray);
            startActivity(i);  

Then in your next actvity, retrieve the array of cookies from the intent and convert the cookies back like so:

List<Cookie> cookies = new List<Cookies>();
for(int i=0;i<cookieArray.size;i++)
{
cookies.add(new HttpCookie(cookieArray[i]));
}