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component extends="coldbox.system.EventHandler" {

  function preHandler(event,rc,prc) {
    if ( getInstance("cookieStorage@cbstorages").exists("user") and rc.event neq "user.logout") {
      event.setValue('isLoggedIn',1);
      event.setValue('user',getInstance("cookieStorage@cbstorages").getVar("user"));
    } else {
      event.setValue('isLoggedIn',0);
    }  
  }

}