connect-dynamodb

Connect DynamoDB

connect-dynamodb is a DynamoDB session store backed by the aws-sdk

Installation

  $ npm install connect-dynamodb

Options

• client An existing AWS DynamoDB object you normally get from new AWS.DynamoDB().client
• AWSConfigPath Path to JSON document containing your AWS credentials
• table DynamoDB server session table name
• prefix Key prefix, defaulting to "sess"
• reapInterval How often expired sessions should be cleaned up

Usage

var options = {
	// Name of the table you would like to use for sessions.
	// Defaults to 'sessions'
  	table: 'myapp-sessions',

	// Path to AWS credentials
  	// Defaults to './aws-config.json'
	AWSConfigPath: './path/to/credentials.json',
  
  	// Optional. How often expired sessions should be cleaned up.
  	// Defaults to 600000 (10 minutes).
  	reapInterval: 600000
};

var connect = require('connect'),
	DynamoDBStore = require('connect-dynamodb')(connect);
connect()
	.use(connect.cookieParser())
	.use(connect.session({ store: new DynamoDBStore(options), secret: 'keyboard cat'}))

Or with express

DynamoDBStore = require('connect-dynamodb')(express);
var app = express(
	express.cookieParser(), 
	express.session({ store: new DynamoDBStore(options), secret: 'keyboard cat'})
);

Contributors

Some people that have added features and fixed bugs in connect-dynamodb other than me.

• Eric Abouaf

Thanks!

LICENSE - "MIT License"

Copyright (c) 2013 Mike Carson, http://ca98am79.com/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Changelog

0.1.3 / 2013-04-11

• Fix expiry default if no sess.cookie.maxAge (https://github.com/ca98am79/connect-dynamodb/issues/4)