- A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent from a website and stored in your computer. Cookies are used to authenticate the user and load the stored information.
- We can interact with cookie using WebDriver API built-in methods.
Add Cookie:
- It is used to add a cookie to the current browsing context.
- The method
addCookie()adds a cookie to the current domain, we may need to navigate to the targeted URL to set the domain. - If the cookie’s domain name is left blank, it is assumed that the cookie is meant for the domain of the current document.
- In below code snippet, We create a new cookie and added it to cookies. We can get the cookie using getCookieNamed() method.
- Click on this link to see Add Cookie article.
@Test
public void VerifyAddedCookie() {
driver.get("https://makeinjava.com");
// We are passing parameters, name = CookieName and value=12345678
Cookie cookie = new Cookie("CookieName", "12345678");
driver.manage().addCookie(cookie);
Cookie newAddedCookie = driver.manage().getCookieNamed("CookieName");
// Verify the cookie value
assertEquals(newAddedCookie.getValue(), "12345678");
}
Delete Cookie:
- SeleniumWebDriver API provides different methods for deleting cookies.
- driver.manage().deleteCookie(Cookie cookie); -- delete a specific cookie
- driver.manage().deleteCookieNamed(String name); -- delete named cookie from the current domain
- driver.manage().deleteAllCookies(); -- delete all the cookies for the current domain
Get Cookie:
The method getCookies() returns Set of cookies for the current domain.
Set<Cookie> cookies = driver.manage().getCookies();
The method getCookieNamed(String name) returns cookie with a given name, or null if no cookie found with the given name.
driver.manage().getCookieNamed(String name);