Session help in ajax

[Partho Ghosh]

Hi All,

I looked through the posts in group and didn't find any suitable solution for my query so I am posting it.

This is how I am creating session in my app:

web.config.debug=False

web.config.session_parameters['cookie_name'] = 'webpy_session_id'

web.config.session_parameters['cookie_domain'] = '/'

web.config.session_parameters['timeout'] = 86400, #24 * 60 * 60, # 24 hours   in seconds

web.config.session_parameters['ignore_expiry'] = True

web.config.session_parameters['ignore_change_ip'] = True

web.config.session_parameters['secret_key'] = 'fLjUfxqXtfNoIldA0A0J'

web.config.session_parameters['expired_message'] = 'Session expired'

store=web.session.DiskStore('sessions')

if web.config.get('_session') is None:

    session = web.session.Session(app, store, initializer={'username':'Guest','userId':'Guest','loggedIn':False})

    web.config._session = session

else:

    session = web.config._session

render = web.template.render('templates/', base='main', globals={'session':session})

And this how I have implemented login into my system:

class Login:

    def POST(self):

        sFormData = web.input()        

        url="<my app api>"

        response = urllib2.urlopen(url)

        user=json.load(response)        

        

        if user['available']:            

            session.username=user['username']

            session.userId=user['userid']

            session.loggedIn=True

                                        

        print "returning json dump"  

        print "Session username in login---->", session.username

        print "Session loggedIn in login---->", session.loggedIn

        print "Session userId in login---->", session.userId     

        return json.dumps(user)  

As you can see, the above controller returns a JSON which is then consumed in javascript and then app is updated accordingly. This is WIP. What my concern is that session is not getting saved. I dont want to store session in a DB.... what is currently happening in now that when I refresh page, my session data is lost. I am passing session as global in template so that I can access session data in my template. I tried every possible solution available. I am frankly unable to detect where I am going wrong in this. Please provide some help.

Regards,

Partho

[Partho Ghosh]

Guys I have solved the issue. Needed to add cookie details.

Just added web.config.session_parameters.update(cookie_name="test_cookie", cookie_domain="/",cookie_path=store,timeout="60") in following manner and now session is working as intended:

if web.config.get('_session') is None:

    session = web.session.Session(app, store, initializer={'username':'Guest','userId':'Guest','loggedIn':False})

    web.config._session = session

else:

    session = web.config._session

web.config.session_parameters.update(cookie_name="test_cookie", cookie_domain="/",cookie_path=store,timeout="60")    

render = web.template.render('templates/', base='main', globals={'session':session})

Regards,

Partho