NAME
Jifty::Web::Session - A Jifty session handler
DESCRIPTION
* Jifty sessions
* User gets a per-app session cookie in their first response from the server * User gets an updated cookie on any request where: 1) if the cookie parameters have changed 2) if the user's current sessionid doesn't match the cookie's session id
* The session cookie is handed out after all processing, but before any page content is displayed
* The user gets a cookie even if we're doing a redirect.
* In the future, we might want to not give the user a cookie.
* Debugging
** Should log: * User presented a session cookie * Loaded session from disk * Failed to load session from disk (expired) * Created a new session * Sent a session cookie to the user.
load
Load up the current session from a cookie
unload
Flush the session to diskd and quit.
get KEY
Returns the value for KEY for the current user's session
set KEY => VALUE
Sets the value VALUE for KEY for the current user's session
remove KEY
Remove key KEY from the cache.
set_continuation KEY VALUE
Stores a continuation in the session
get_continuation KEY
Pulls a continuation from the current session. Expects a continuation id
remove_continuation CONTINUATION_ID
Removes a continuation with id CONTINUATION id from the store.
continuations
Return a hash of all the continuations in this session. Keyed by continuation_id.
set_cookie
Sets the session cookie
cookie_name
Returns the current session's cookie_name. (It's a generic thing for all users
expires
Return this cache entry's expirey date, in the format expected by Cache::Cache;