Show me a website without any cookies, and I'll show you a pamphlet. At some point, you're going to need to write a cookie. Indeed, we've already seen that Ring writes out a cookie for us right out of the box for session tracking.
We can interact with cookies using the noir.cookies namespace. At its most basic, noir.cookies provides two functions: get and put!.
We can get a cookie's value by calling noir.cookies/get and providing either a string or a keyword for the name of the cookie to retrieve. We can see this in action by creating a trivial route that simply renders out the value of the ring-session cookie:
(require '[compojure.core :refer :all]
'[noir.cookies :as cookies])
(defroutes some-route
(GET "/ring-session" [] (cookies/get "ring-session")) ;#1The call to cookies/get retrieves the value of the cookie in question – if one exists – otherwise nil. In our case, the preceding code would render something similar to the following:
