Send cookies to next activity android

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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?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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Yes you can send a List to another activity, but first you'll need to convert it to an instance of ArrayList, or String[] array.

Take a look over this threads:
Passing a List to another Activity in Android
How to put a List in intent

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answered Oct 07 '12 at 16:29

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Do you have any pointers to convert `List` to `List` please? – Stuyvenstein Oct 07 '12 at 16:36

Anup Cowkur · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-07T17:07:19.080

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]));
}

Thanx but once I sent it to the new activity, how do I convert from strings back to cookies? And remember to put `i++;` in your for loop — Stuyvenstein, Oct 07 '12 at 16:53

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

Sure - just read the cookie from the HTTP header, and store it however is convenient for you.

I think this is probably overkill, but here's an example that uses the Apache HTTP Client that ships with Android 2.2:

How do I make an http request using cookies on Android?

Also look here (available since level 1):

http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/cookie/package-summary.html

Send cookies to next activity android

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