Work with cookies

You can use TVSDK to send arbitrary data in cookie headers for session management, gate access, and so on.

Here is a sample request to the key server with some authentication:

1. Your customer logs in to your website in a browser and their login shows that this customer is allowed to view content.

2. Based on what is expected by the license server, your application generates an authentication token.

   This value is passed to TVSDK.

3. TVSDK sets this value in the cookie header.

4. When TVSDK makes a request to the key server to get a key to decrypt the content, the request contains the authentication value in the cookie header.

   The key server knows that the request is valid.

To work with cookies:

Create a cookieManager and add your cookies for the URIs to your cookieStore.

For example:

CookieManager cookieManager=new CookieManager();
CookieHandler.setDefault(cookieManager);
HttpCookie cookie=new HttpCookie("lang","fr");
cookie.setDomain("twitter.com");
cookie.setPath("/");
cookie.setVersion(0);
cookieManager.getCookieStore().add(newURI("https://twitter.com/"),cookie);

TVSDK queries this cookieManager at runtime, checks whether there are any cookies associated with the URL, and automatically uses those cookies.

The event MediaPlayerEvent.COOKIES_UPDATED is called when C++ cookies are updated. This cookiesUpdatedEvent has a method getCookieString() that returns a string value for the cookie.

A sample code snippet is below:

private final CookiesUpdatedEventListener cookiesUpdatedEventListener = new CookiesUpdatedEventListener()
{
@Override
public void onCookiesUpdated(CookiesUpdatedEvent cookiesUpdatedEvent)
 {
 String cookieStr = cookiesUpdatedEvent.getCookieString();
 logger.i(LOG_TAG + "::MediaPlayer.CookiesUpdatedEventListener#onCookiesUpdated()", "cookieStr " + cookieStr);
 }
};