How do I read the value of a cookie in the Play-Framework with Scala?

Question

How can I read the value of a cookie in my controller in the Play-Framework with Scala?

In my controller I have this:

println(Http.Request.current().headers.get("cookie"))

And the output is this:

[csrftoken=011d7cfe84915ee9897c8c6079d49d5a; test=value]

And I'm hoping there is a better way of accessing the value of "test" other than parsing the string.. ;)

Answer 1

You can access the cookie using the cookie object on the HTTP Request, rather than getting it in raw format from the header. Look at the API here for more info.

You should be able to just do:

Http.Request.current().cookies.get("test")

Answer 2

You can get the cookie value in scala template using @request.cookies.get("email").value.

If you want to check its not null, @if(request.cookies.get("email") != null) {}