PowerBuilder - Cookie management example
The AntView control has an extra interface for managing cookies. This is the AntViewCookieManager interface and it is modeled after WebView2's native interface. This includes the OnGetCookieList event.
Sadly PowerBuilder cannot directly access events that are outside of the main interface.
Because of that we have added synchronous alternatives to work around this limitation.
First there is GetCookiesAsJsonSync which returns a Json string with all the cookies for the URL passed. This allows you to access the individual cookie contents.
Then there is GetCookieSync which returns a cookie object so you can manipulate each individual cookie.
Here's an explanation of the synchronous code example as found in the web browser demo:
The address box now has an option https://www.antwise.com/demo/cookies.html as a test page to experiment with.
When you load that html page, it will set three cookies for it via javascript. This page also has a button that enumerates all the cookies -accessible from javascript- for the page. If you click it, it will show you the following.
The Web Browser demo has a button "Cookies" that will first list all of the available cookies loaded in the document for the current URL.
Followed by changing the value of cookie "two" to "strawberry" and adding a new cookie called "extra" with the value "biscuit".
Here's the code for that.
int i
int err
int count
String ls_cookies
String ls_url
String ls_name
OLEOBJECT io_CookieManager
OLEOBJECT io_Cookie
io_cookieManager = edgewebbrowser.object.CookieManager
ls_url = edgewebbrowser.object.source
ls_cookies = "" // must initialize
messageBox("url = ", ls_url)
err = io_CookieManager.GetCookiesAsJsonSync(ls_url,REF ls_cookies)
messageBox('Cookies = ', ls_cookies)
// Change cookie two from coconut to strawberry
ls_name = "two"
err = io_CookieManager.GetCookieSync(ls_url, ls_name, REF io_Cookie)
IF err = 0 THEN
io_Cookie.value = "strawberry"
io_CookieManager.AddOrUpdateCookie(io_Cookie)
ELSE
MessageBox("cookie not found",ls_name)
END IF
// add a new cookie
io_Cookie = io_CookieManager.createCookie("extra","biscuit","antwise.com","/")
io_CookieManager.AddOrUpdateCookie(io_Cookie)
After the button in the PowerBuilder part with the code above was clicked, you can then click the button at the html page again and it shows you the following:
AntView - The MS Edge WebView2 ActiveX control Date last changed: 11/05/2025