Re: sessions.data purpose?

[Nala Ginrut]

Hi Mortimer!
Session is not only a single field to record that you can login without
authentication.

Sometimes some data is related to sid. Just like cookie on the server
side. Of course, it depends on your design. You may create another table
to contain these data and indexed by sid.

session.data is useful when you use `file' or `redis' as the session backend.
We used it in a internal project to store json string in redis as the
session data. So we can access the data quick and dirty.

When you're using relational databases as the backend, you may create
tables for that, it's relatively a weak feature to use.

Best regards.

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Mortimer Cladwell writes:

> Hi Nala,
> What is the purpose of the sessions.data field? For all my sessions the
> data field is populated with an empty list.  Is there a way for me to make
> use of this list?  For example I would like to associate a session with a
> person.  Is that (associating a person with a session) already handled
> within Artanis?
> Thanks
> Mortimer


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