Get information passed in cookies to session

Question

Hi,
I am using Jdev 11.1.1.7.0_GENERIC_130226.1400.6493.
In solving the below problem posted  https://community.oracle.com/thread/2618889
I was successful in getting and setting the session variable by creating a clientListener, that is called onload and fetches the document.cookie add add a Queue event to backingBean's method
Code ::
<f:view beforePhase="#{BackingBean.beforePhaseListener}">
      <af:document id="d2" binding="#{BackingBean.d2}" title="TITLE">
             <af:clientListener method="readAndDeleteCookie" type="load"/>
                      <af:serverListener type="customEvent"  method="#{BackingBean.handleRequest}"/>
<af:resource type="javascript">
function readAndDeleteCookie(event) {
            component = event.getSource();
              var cokiesGet = document.cookie;
             AdfCustomEvent.queue(component, "customEvent",
                  userLanguageCookie : cokiesGet , userLanguage : cokiesGet.substring(13)
              }, true);
              event.cancel();
</af:resource>
</document></form
The above code does almost what I what just a bit of problem still exists.
In beforePhase we do some initial fetching data, that should be effected byt userLanguage selected (i.e the cookie). But as it is beforePhase is called before the document load happens, so the userLanguage is not effecting it. I tried using afterPhase too, but it doesn't work.
I want to fetch the document.cookie before that beforePhase....
Can anyone suggest a way to do this ??
Thanks in advance.
-Neha..

Answer 1

Hi,
from the FacesContext --> ExternalRequest you get access to the HTTP Request object. You can then access the cookie from here without the use of JavaScript (keep in mind that the Faces object is a servlet).
Frank