Method and apparatus for supporting cookie management in a web presentation architecture

• US 20050091336A1
• Filed: 10/01/2003
• Published: 04/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Johnson, Peter Christopher II, DeHamer, Brian James
• Application Number:
  US10/676,180
• Publication Number:
  US 20050091336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method that creates applications. The system comprises a controller generator that is adapted to provide an application with a controller that receives requests for data from users and responds to the requests by obtaining requested data. The system also comprises a cookie management generator that is adapted to prevent conflicting cookie values associated with multiple actions invoking a particular cookie.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a controller generator that is adapted to provide an application with a controller that receives requests for data from users and responds to the requests by obtaining requested data; and

a cookie manager that is adapted to prevent conflicting cookie values associated with multiple actions invoking a particular cookie.

2. The system set forth in claim 1, wherein the controller is adapted to instantiate the cookie manager before processing a user request.

3. The system set forth in claim 1, wherein the cookie manager is adapted to add a cookie value for the particular cookie associated with a first action of the multiple actions.

4. The system set forth in claim 3, wherein the cookie manager is adapted to update the cookie value for a second action of the multiple actions.

5. The system set forth in claim 1, wherein the cookie manager is adapted to maintain a most recent value of multiple cookie values provided by the multiple actions for the particular cookie.

6. The system set forth in claim 1, wherein the cookie manager is adapted to defer creation of a set cookie header until the controller is ready to commit a response for a user request.

7. The system set forth in claim 1, comprising a model and a view separate from one another and separate from the controller, wherein the model is adapted to provide an application state for the application and the view is adapted to provide a view presentation for the application.

8. A method comprising:

creating, with a processor-based device, a controller that receives requests for data from users and responds to the requests by obtaining requested data; and

providing a cookie manager that stores a most recent value of a particular cookie invoked by multiple actions.

9. The method set forth in claim 8, wherein providing the cookie manager comprises creating the cookie manager upon receipt of a user request by the controller.

10. The method set forth in claim 9, wherein creating comprises maintaining a queue of cookies for a particular session of processing the user request.

11. The method set forth in claim 10, wherein maintaining comprises replacing a previous value associated with a previous action with the most recent value associated with a most recent action.

12. The method set forth in claim 8, wherein providing the cookie manager comprises providing add cookie logic to cache a new cookie value for the particular cookie.

13. The method set forth in claim 8, wherein providing the cookie manager comprises providing commit cookie logic to commit the most recent value of the particular cookie for a response to a user request.

14. A system comprising:

means for creating a controller that provides control functions for an application, the controller being adapted to receive requests for data from users and respond to the requests by obtaining requested data; and

means for managing multiple cookie actions to maintain a current value of a particular cookie.

15. The system set forth in claim 14, wherein the means for managing comprises means for caching a cookie value for the particular cookie.

16. The system set forth in claim 14, wherein the means for managing comprises means for committing the current value of the particular cookie for a response to a user request.

17. A program for creating applications, comprising:

a machine readable medium;

a cookie manager stored on the machine readable medium and adapted to provide a desired cookie value for a response to a user request, wherein the desired cookie value is one of multiple cookie values set by different actions for a particular cookie.

18. The program set forth in claim 17, comprising controller logic stored on the machine readable medium and adapted to receive requests for data from users and respond to the requests by obtaining requested data.

19. The program set forth in claim 17, comprising action classes stored on the machine readable medium and adapted to perform the different actions for processing the user request.

20. The program set forth in claim 17, wherein the cookie manager comprises add cookie logic to cache a new cookie value for the particular cookie.

21. The program set forth in claim 20, wherein cookie manager comprises commit cookie logic to commit the desired cookie value in a portion of the request.