Cookies module: readBrowserCookies cannot be called server-side

[Andy Gold]

Hi

I have been trying to read a local cookie from within my lists.js, but
I'm getting the error readBrowserCookies cannot be called server-side.

It says in the cookies module read.me that you can use them within
lists server side, but its not working for me.

I've added var cookie = require('cookies'); to the top of lists.js and
then I'm trying to read the cookie with var id =
cookie.readBrowserCookie('id');

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks

Andy

[Ryan Ramage]

Does not seem it can be called serverside:

https://github.com/kanso/cookies/blob/master/cookies.js#L24

Reading through the modules there does not seem to be a serverside
version. You might want to explore the req.headers.cookie (not sure
this is exact). You can fork and add to the module if you want ;)

Ryan

[Andy Gold]

Hi Ryan

Thanks, thats where the error is coming from, but I was going by this
line in the read.me "Utility functions for reading and setting cookies
in the browser and from server-side CouchDB functions (lists, shows,
updates etc)." Doesn't this mean it should be able to from a server
side lists function?

Andy

[Ryan Ramage]

Andy,

Yes, it looks like the readme does not match the code. Unfortunately
the code wins.
I have opened a github issue here:

https://github.com/kanso/cookies/issues/2

Also this should include updating the readme.

[Andy Gold]

Hi Ryan

Thanks.

[Caolan McMahon]

Looks like there's a function to add cookie headers to a response from
a list function but not to parse incoming cookies sent with a request.

I guess it never came up... until now ;)

Pull requests welcome,

Caolan