CookieLocaleResolver internally persists a custom locale and/or a time zone information as browser cookie. It uses javax.servlet.http.Cookie to accomplish that. This LocaleResolver is preferred to be used (over SessionLocaleResolver), when application has to be stateless or when locale information should be persisted beyond HTTPSession life time.
Like we discussed in SessionLocaleResolver example, there might be many different scenarios where a Locale instance should be remembered on the server side. Here we are going to use the same scenarios as of the last example, where ChangeLocaleInterceptor will retrieve the specified HTTP param value, parse it to the Locale instance and then will hand over it to the underlying LocaleResolver (CookieLocaleResolver in this case). The CookieLocaleResolver at this point will add the locale information as a Cookie to HTTP response.
Registering CookieLocaleResolver
@SpringBootApplication
public class Main {
public static void main (String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Main.class, args);
}
@Bean
public LocaleResolver localeResolver () {
CookieLocaleResolver r = new CookieLocaleResolver();
r.setDefaultLocale(Locale.US);
r.setCookieName("localeInfo");
//if set to -1, the cookie is deleted
// when browser shuts down
r.setCookieMaxAge(24*60*60);
return r;
}
@Bean
public WebMvcConfigurer configurer () {
return new WebMvcConfigurerAdapter() {
@Override
public void addInterceptors (InterceptorRegistry registry) {
LocaleChangeInterceptor l = new LocaleChangeInterceptor();
l.setParamName("localeCode");
registry.addInterceptor(l);
}
};
}
}
The rest of the artifacts remain the same as of the last example. The output and flow is also same.
After changing the language in the dropdown, a cookie will be created in the browser.
In google chrome browser (right click on page > Inspect > Application (top toolbar) > Storage (left tree) > Cookies > http://localhost:8080):
Example Project
Dependencies and Technologies Used:
Spring Boot 1.4.3.RELEASE Corresponding Spring Version 4.3.5.RELEASE
spring-boot-starter-web : Starter for building web, including RESTful, applications using Spring
MVC. Uses Tomcat as the default embedded container.
