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+// Copyright (c) 2012-2016 The Revel Framework Authors, All rights reserved.
+// Revel Framework source code and usage is governed by a MIT style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package revel
+
+import (
+ "fmt"
+ "net/http"
+ "net/url"
+)
+
+// Flash represents a cookie that is overwritten on each request.
+// It allows data to be stored across one page at a time.
+// This is commonly used to implement success or error messages.
+// E.g. the Post/Redirect/Get pattern:
+// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get
+type Flash struct {
+ // `Data` is the input which is read in `restoreFlash`, `Out` is the output which is set in a FLASH cookie at the end of the `FlashFilter()`
+ Data, Out map[string]string
+}
+
+// Error serializes the given msg and args to an "error" key within
+// the Flash cookie.
+func (f Flash) Error(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
+ if len(args) == 0 {
+ f.Out["error"] = msg
+ } else {
+ f.Out["error"] = fmt.Sprintf(msg, args...)
+ }
+}
+
+// Success serializes the given msg and args to a "success" key within
+// the Flash cookie.
+func (f Flash) Success(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
+ if len(args) == 0 {
+ f.Out["success"] = msg
+ } else {
+ f.Out["success"] = fmt.Sprintf(msg, args...)
+ }
+}
+
+// FlashFilter is a Revel Filter that retrieves and sets the flash cookie.
+// Within Revel, it is available as a Flash attribute on Controller instances.
+// The name of the Flash cookie is set as CookiePrefix + "_FLASH".
+func FlashFilter(c *Controller, fc []Filter) {
+ c.Flash = restoreFlash(c.Request)
+ c.ViewArgs["flash"] = c.Flash.Data
+
+ fc[0](c, fc[1:])
+
+ // Store the flash.
+ var flashValue string
+ for key, value := range c.Flash.Out {
+ flashValue += "\x00" + key + ":" + value + "\x00"
+ }
+ c.SetCookie(&http.Cookie{
+ Name: CookiePrefix + "_FLASH",
+ Value: url.QueryEscape(flashValue),
+ HttpOnly: true,
+ Secure: CookieSecure,
+ Path: "/",
+ })
+}
+
+// restoreFlash deserializes a Flash cookie struct from a request.
+func restoreFlash(req *Request) Flash {
+ flash := Flash{
+ Data: make(map[string]string),
+ Out: make(map[string]string),
+ }
+ if cookie, err := req.Cookie(CookiePrefix + "_FLASH"); err == nil {
+ ParseKeyValueCookie(cookie.GetValue(), func(key, val string) {
+ flash.Data[key] = val
+ })
+ }
+ return flash
+}