Re: Plist entry
Re: Plist entry
- Subject: Re: Plist entry
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:41:49 +0100
On 19/01/08 14:18, Michael Ghilissen wrote:
I want to create a cookies management script for Safari, which
creates a new plist by:
1/ reading the original plist,
2/ selecting only those cookies, which are authorized, and
3/ writing an new plist .
The format of the plist must be Safari's.
Thanks for those explanations.
So, let's start with a newly created Cookies.plist, after having opened
Apple's home page:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<array>
<dict>
<key>Created</key>
<real>222442409.37105501</real>
<key>Domain</key>
<string>.apple.com</string>
<key>Expires</key>
<date>2008-02-18T13:33:29Z</date>
<key>Name</key>
<string>s_nr</string>
<key>Path</key>
<string>/</string>
<key>Value</key>
<string>1200749609370</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Created</key>
<real>222442409.85446599</real>
<key>Domain</key>
<string>.apple.com</string>
<key>Expires</key>
<date>2013-01-17T13:33:29Z</date>
<key>Name</key>
<string>s_vi</string>
<key>Path</key>
<string>/</string>
<key>Value</key>
<string>[CS]v1|4791FC290000379D-A2B0C0800000111[CE]</string>
</dict>
</array>
</plist>
This is thus an array of dicts.
Let's see how System Events interprets it:
tell application "System Events"
set PLValue to value of contents of property list file
"~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist"
end tell
This returns a list of records (hence: array -> list, dict -> record);
after some formatting, that list of records is:
{
{
|Path|:"/",
|Expires|:date "lundi 18 février 2008 14:33:29",
|Domain|:".apple.com",
|Value|:"1200749609370",
|Created|:2.22442409371055E+8,
|Name|:"s_nr"
},
{
|Path|:"/",
|Expires|:date "jeudi 17 janvier 2013 14:33:29",
|Domain|:".apple.com",
|Value|:"[CS]v1|4791FC290000379D-A2B0C0800000111[CE]",
|Created|:2.22442409854466E+8,
|Name|:"s_vi"
}
}
So, as Luther already has outlined, one needs to build the list with the
records to be kept and save it back to a file.
For example, assuming you want to keep cookies related to "apple.com":
tell application "System Events"
set PL to contents of property list file
"~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist"
set PLValue to value of PL
set NewPLValue to {}
repeat with R in PLValue
if |Domain| of R ends with "apple.com" then set end of
NewPLValue to contents of R
end repeat
set NewPL to make new property list item with properties
{value:NewPLValue}
make new property list file with properties
{name:"~/Desktop/Cookies.plist", contents:NewPL}
end tell
Of course, there is sure more than one way to do it... ;-)
Axel
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