NAME
Dancer::Session::DBIC - DBIx::Class session engine for Dancer
VERSION
0.006
DESCRIPTION
This module implements a session engine for Dancer by serializing the
session, and storing it in a database via DBIx::Class. The default
serialization method is JSON, though one can specify any serialization
format you want. YAML and Storable are viable alternatives.
JSON was chosen as the default serialization format, as it is fast,
terse, and portable.
SYNOPSIS
Example configuration:
session: "DBIC"
session_options:
dsn: "DBI:mysql:database=testing;host=127.0.0.1;port=3306" # DBI Data Source Name
schema_class: "Interchange6::Schema" # DBIx::Class schema
user: "user" # Username used to connect to the database
pass: "password" # Password to connect to the database
resultset: "MySession" # DBIx::Class resultset, defaults to Session
id_column: "my_session_id" # defaults to sessions_id
data_column: "my_session_data" # defaults to session_data
In conjunction with Dancer::Plugin::DBIC, you can simply use the schema
object provided by this plugin in your application, either by providing
the name of the schema used by the plugin in the config:
session_options:
schema: default
Or by passing the schema object directly in the code:
set session_options => {schema => schema};
Custom serializer / deserializer can be specified as follows:
set 'session_options' => {
schema => schema,
serializer => sub { YAML::Dump(@_); },
deserializer => sub { YAML::Load(@_); },
};
SESSION EXPIRATION
A timestamp field that updates when a session is updated is
recommended, so you can expire sessions server-side as well as
client-side.
This session engine will not automagically remove expired sessions on
the server, but with a timestamp field as above, you should be able to
to do this manually.
RESULT CLASS EXAMPLE
This result class would work as-is with the default values of
session_options. It uses DBIx::Class::TimeStamp to auto-set the created
and last_modified timestamps.
package MySchema::Result::Session;
use strict;
use warnings;
use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw(TimeStamp));
__PACKAGE__->table('sessions');
__PACKAGE__->add_columns(
sessions_id => {
data_type => 'varchar', size => 255
},
session_data => {
data_type => 'text'
},
created => {
data_type => 'datetime', set_on_create => 1
},
last_modified => {
data_type => 'datetime', set_on_create => 1, set_on_update => 1
},
);
__PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('sessions_id');
1;
METHODS
create()
Creates a new session. Returns the session object.
flush()
Write the session to the database. Returns the session object.
retrieve($id)
Look for a session with the given id.
Returns the session object if found, undef if not. Logs a debug-level
warning if the session was found, but could not be deserialized.
destroy()
Remove the current session object from the database.
SEE ALSO
Dancer, Dancer::Session
AUTHOR
Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <
[email protected]>
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Based on code from Dancer::Session::DBI written by James Aitken and
code from Dancer::Plugin::DBIC written by Naveed Massjouni.
Enhancements provided by:
Yanick Champoux (GH #6, #7). Peter Mottram (GH #5, #8).
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) Stefan Hornburg.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
