Cannot read cookies set in react-native from rails server

[obromios]

I have asked the following question on stack overflow with no answer, so am asking here. I am using react-native-cookies. I can use the getAll method to read cookies that have been previously set on the server side. In react native I can use the set command to set a cookie called 'myCookie', and I can read it using the getAll command. However, I cannot read a cookie on the server side that has been set by the react-native app.

The react-native code which is in index.ios.js

var CookieManager = require('react-native-cookies')
  componentWillMount () {
    CookieManager.set({
      name: 'myCookie',
      value: 'myValue',
      domain: 'ios app',
      origin: 'some origin',
      path: '/',
      version: '1',
      expiration: '2017-05-30T12:30:00.00-05:00'
    }, (err, res) => {
      console.log('cookie set!');
      console.log(err);
      console.log(res);
      console.log('my output');
    });
    CookieManager.getAll((cookie) => {
      let isAuthenticated;
      if (cookie && cookie.remember_token) {
        isAuthenticated = true;
      }
      else {
        isAuthenticated = false;
      }

      this.setState({
        loggedIn: isAuthenticated
      });
      console.log('GM:cookie remember isAuthenticated', cookie.remember_token, isAuthenticated,this.state.title,'myCookie',cookie.myCookie)
    });
  },

The output from the last console log message is

GM:cookie remember isAuthenticated Object {domain: "localhost", value: "BAhbB2kHSSJFZmM3NDVkNTEwZTBkYTViZjU4NTJhOGQyZDNlMz…wY6BkVU--5888c15b42c6bdf3ca34c89f6554d2455d48c46b", name: "remember_token", path: "/"} true Sign In myCookie Object {domain: "ios app", value: "myValue", name: "myCookie", path: "/"}

showing that the myCookie object is being set and that the app is able to recover the remember_token set by the rails server.

The above code is executed at start up of the ios app. The ios app then opens a webview component that calls the new method in the sessions controller of a ruby on rails web app. In the rails sessions controller, I find that cookie['myCookie'] is nil. Why is the cookie being set in a way that I cannot access it from the rails app?

Someone has suggested dropping the optional keys like domain and origin, but react-native-cookie appears to require all these keys. I have also tried setting the domain to the correct domain name and that does not help either.

[tomffee]

+1

Have you already found a solution for this? Thx.

[obromios]

Unfortunately no.