Breaking change to format of datasource-stored session data

[Juan Aguilar]

Hello,

We've been holding off on upgrading to 5.x due to PDF issues and are testing the latest release but have come across a new issue. Due to issues with SessionInvalidate and SessionRotate when using datasource-stored sessions, we've needed to read the session data from an old session straight from the cf_session_data table.

I'm not sure when this started but now the session data (stored as a string) is prepended with "struct:{". This throws an error if you try to Evaluate the string into a struct.

If I get the session data in a query named "getOldSession", I used to be able to do this:

objSessionData = Evaluate(getOldSession.data);

but this throws a "lucee.runtime.interpreter.InterpreterException: Syntax Error, invalid Expression" error now.

I can work around the change by doing this:

strOldSessionData = replaceNoCase(getOldSession.data, "struct:{", "{");
objSessionData = Evaluate(strOldSessionData);

Is replaceNoCase the right way to do this or is there something that I'm missing about the new format for the stored session data?

Thanks,

Juan

[Simon Goldschmidt]

Hi Juan,

We use a datasource for session storage and have had problems with sessions since 5.1.0. We opened this ticket https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-1207 and will update with your observations.

Simon