package controllers
import play.api._
import play.api.mvc._
import play.api.data._
import play.api.data.Forms._
/*
* Application sets a cookie in plain ASCII on the
* clients browser recording the visits of a page.
*/
object Application extends Controller {
//no or invalid cookie results in the counter being 0
def gt_cookie(c: Option[Cookie]) : Int = c.map(_.value) match {
case Some(s) if (s.forall(_.isDigit)) => s.toInt
case _ => 0
}
def mk_cookie(i: Int) : Cookie = {
Cookie("visits", i.toString)
}
// GET request: read cookie data first
def index = Action { request =>
//reads the cookie and extracts the visits counter
val visits_cookie = request.cookies.get("visits")
val visits = gt_cookie(visits_cookie)
//printing a message according to value of visits counter
val msg1 = "You are a valued customer who has visited this site %d times."
val msg2 = "You have visited this site %d times."
val msg =
if (visits >= 10) msg1.format(visits) else msg2.format(visits)
//send message with new cookie
Ok(msg).as(HTML).withCookies(mk_cookie(visits + 1))
}
}