Java, How to Instance HttpCookie from a String, any convenient ways?

Question

I have got a cookie string from HTTP response header like the following line:

name=value; path=/; domain=.g.cn; expire=...

I can parse the above line to key-value pairs, and, also it's easy to set the name and value to HttpCookie instance as this pair comes the first.

But how to set the other pairs since I don't know which set-method corresponds to the name of the next name-value pair. Traverse all possible keys a cookie may contian and call the matched set-method, like below snippet?

if (key.equalsIgnoreCase("path"))
 cookie.setPath(value);
else if (key.equalsIgnoreCase("domain"))
 cookie.setDomain(value);

That's foolish, any convenient ways? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

HttpCookie provides a parse(...) method that does the work for you. Look at the JavaDoc here. If this is not what you want then look at the source code of its method.

Answer 2

You could use a HashMap<String, String> then just iterate through the cookie string adding new hash entries, then, once you're done, you can do something like cookie.setPath(hash.get("path")) and cookie.setDomain(hash.get("domain"))