Read document cookies in Lightning Component

Question

I want to read the cookies out of the DOM document object. I tried the following:

Controller:

init : function(component, event, helper) {
     console.log(document.cookie); // returns nothing
}

Renderer:

afterRender : function(component, helper) {
    console.log(document.cookie); // returns nothing
}

I want to read the Salesforce session id out of the cookies. I also tried to get the session id via apex:

@AuraEnabled
public static string requestSession() {
    return UserInfo.getSessionId();
}

But I can not use the returned id for REST API calls. But the sid in the cookies works for REST API.

Thanks!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '18 at 16:43

You should be able to read the SecureDocument.cookie attribute Locker Service document.cookie support

But for your use case Salesforce recommends using Named Credentials to authenticate to Salesforce. https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.lightning.meta/lightning/apex_api_calls.htm

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