NAME

       Dancer::Cookies - a singleton storage for all cookies

SYNOPSIS

           use Dancer::Cookies;

           my $cookies = Dancer::Cookies->cookies;

           foreach my $name ( keys %{$cookies} ) {
               my $cookie = $cookies->{$name};
               my $value  = $cookie->value;
               print "$name => $value\n";
           }

           cookie lang => "fr-FR"; #set a cookie and return its value
           cookie lang => "fr-FR", expires => "2 hours";
           cookie "lang"           #return a cookie value

DESCRIPTION

       Dancer::Cookies keeps all the cookies defined by the application and makes them accessible
       and provides a few helper functions for cookie handling with regards to the stored
       cookies.

METHODS

   init
       This method is called when "->new()" is called. It creates a storage of cookies parsed
       from the environment using "parse_cookies_from_env" described below.

   cookies
       Returns a hash reference of all cookies, all objects of Dancer::Cookie type.

       The key is the cookie name, the value is the Dancer::Cookie object.

   cookie
       "cookie" method is useful to query or set cookies easily.

           cookie lang => "fr-FR";              # set a cookie and return its value
           cookie lang => "fr-FR", expires => "2 hours";   # extra cookie info
           cookie "lang"                        # return a cookie value

   parse_cookie_from_env
       Fetches all the cookies from the environment, parses them and creates a hashref of all
       cookies.

       It also returns all the hashref it created.

AUTHOR

       Alexis Sukrieh

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2009-2010 Alexis Sukrieh.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or
       the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.