Get cookie by name

Question

I have a getter to get the value from a cookie.

Now I have 2 cookies by the name shares= and by the name obligations= .

I want to

Answer 1

A functional approach to find existing cookies. It returns an array, so it supports multiple occurrences of the same name. It doesn't support partial key matching, but it's trivial to replace the === in the filter with a regex.

function getCookie(needle) {
    return document.cookie.split(';').map(function(cookiestring) {
        cs = cookiestring.trim().split('=');

        if(cs.length === 2) {
            return {'name' : cs[0], 'value' : cs[1]};
        } else {
            return {'name' : '', 'value' : ''};
        }
    })
    .filter(function(cookieObject) { 
        return (cookieObject.name === needle);
    });
}