Cookie Parsing (v10)

Revision 10 of this benchmark created on

Description

Comparing two RegExp and String parsing methods for getting a value from a cookie.

Then adding in Lawnchair's cookie parser, for fun.

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie/master/jquery.cookie.js">
</script>
<script>
  function generateCookieString(count) {
    var name = "name",
        stringParts = [],
        array = new Array(6);
    for (var j = 1; j <= count; j++) {
      stringParts.push(name + j + '=' + array.join(name + j));
    }
    return stringParts.join(';');
  }

  function string(name, cookie) {
    setPos = cookie.indexOf(name + '='), stopPos = cookie.indexOf(';', setPos);

    // Dataset does not exist, attempt to register default
    return !~setPos ? null : cookie.substring(
    setPos, ~stopPos ? stopPos : undefined).split('=')[1];
  }

  function regexp(name, cookie) {
    var regex = new RegExp(name + '=([^;]*)', 'g'),
        result = regex.exec(cookie);

    return result[1] || null;
  }

  function getStrCookie(name) {
    var regex = new RegExp("(^" + name + "=([a-zA-Z-_0-9]+);?.*)|(.*;\\s?" + name + "=([a-zA-Z-_0-9]+);?.*)"),
        cookie = document.cookie;
    return cookie.match(regex) ? cookie.replace(regex, "$2$4") : '';
  }

  function lawnchair(name, cookie) {
    var nameEQ = name + '=',
        ca = cookie.split(';'),
        len = ca.length,
        i = 0,
        c;

    for (; i < len; i++) {
      c = ca[i];
      while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {
        c = c.substring(1, c.length);
      }
      if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) {
        return c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length);
      }
    }
    return null;

  }

  function simplesplits(name, cookie) {

    var parts = cookie.split(name);

    return parts.length === 0 ? null : parts[1].split('=')[1].split(';')[0];

  }

  function CookieHandler() {
    function CookieParser() {
      var kvs = document.cookie.split(";");

      function trim(stringToTrim) {
        return stringToTrim.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
      }

      function parseCookies() {
        var result = {};
        $.each(kvs, function(i, v) {
          var kvp = v.split("=");
          result[trim(kvp[0])] = kvp[1];
        });
        return result;
      }
      return {
        cookies: function() {
          return parseCookies();
        }
      };
    }

    var cache = [];

    function cacheCookie(key, cookie) {
      if (!cache[key]) cookie.replace(/;\s*\b([^=]*)=([^;]*)/g, function(a, b, c) {
        cache[b] = c
      });
      return cache[key]
    };

    return {
      getCookies: CookieParser().cookies,
      getCookie: function(cookieName) {
        return CookieParser().cookies()[cookieName] || null;
      }
    };
  }

  var cookieString = generateCookieString(30);
</script>

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String
string('name15', cookieString);
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RegExp
regexp('name15', cookieString);
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Lawnchair
lawnchair('name15', cookieString);
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Simple splits
simplesplits('name15', cookieString);
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CookieHandler
CookieHandler().getCookie('name15');
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$.cookie
$.cookie("name15")
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getStrCookie
getStrCookie("name15")
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cached
cacheCookie('name15', cookieString);
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