Two way sync for cookies between HttpURLConnection (java.net.CookieManager) and WebView (android.webkit.CookieManager)
I've implemented my own idea. It's actually pretty cool. I've created my own implementation of java.net.CookieManager
which forwards all requests to the WebViews' webkit android.webkit.CookieManager
. This means no sync is required and HttpURLConnection uses the same cookie storage as the WebViews.
Class WebkitCookieManagerProxy:
import java.io.IOException;import java.net.CookieManager;import java.net.CookiePolicy;import java.net.CookieStore;import java.net.URI;import java.util.Arrays;import java.util.List;import java.util.Map;public class WebkitCookieManagerProxy extends CookieManager { private android.webkit.CookieManager webkitCookieManager; public WebkitCookieManagerProxy() { this(null, null); } public WebkitCookieManagerProxy(CookieStore store, CookiePolicy cookiePolicy) { super(null, cookiePolicy); this.webkitCookieManager = android.webkit.CookieManager.getInstance(); } @Override public void put(URI uri, Map<String, List<String>> responseHeaders) throws IOException { // make sure our args are valid if ((uri == null) || (responseHeaders == null)) return; // save our url once String url = uri.toString(); // go over the headers for (String headerKey : responseHeaders.keySet()) { // ignore headers which aren't cookie related if ((headerKey == null) || !(headerKey.equalsIgnoreCase("Set-Cookie2") || headerKey.equalsIgnoreCase("Set-Cookie"))) continue; // process each of the headers for (String headerValue : responseHeaders.get(headerKey)) { this.webkitCookieManager.setCookie(url, headerValue); } } } @Override public Map<String, List<String>> get(URI uri, Map<String, List<String>> requestHeaders) throws IOException { // make sure our args are valid if ((uri == null) || (requestHeaders == null)) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Argument is null"); // save our url once String url = uri.toString(); // prepare our response Map<String, List<String>> res = new java.util.HashMap<String, List<String>>(); // get the cookie String cookie = this.webkitCookieManager.getCookie(url); // return it if (cookie != null) res.put("Cookie", Arrays.asList(cookie)); return res; } @Override public CookieStore getCookieStore() { // we don't want anyone to work with this cookie store directly throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }}
And use it by doing this on your application initialization:
android.webkit.CookieSyncManager.createInstance(appContext);// unrelated, just make sure cookies are generally allowedandroid.webkit.CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true);// magic starts hereWebkitCookieManagerProxy coreCookieManager = new WebkitCookieManagerProxy(null, java.net.CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_ALL);java.net.CookieHandler.setDefault(coreCookieManager);
Testing
My initial testing show this is working well. I see cookies shared between the WebViews and HttpURLConnection. I hope I'll not run into any issues. If you try this out and discover any problem, please comment.