koa-generic-session

generic-session

Generic session middleware for koa, easy use with custom stores such as redis or mongo, supports defer session getter. different from koa-session(it is cookie session).

This middleware will only set a cookie when a session is manually set. Each time the session is modified (and only when the is session modified), it will reset the cookie and session.

You can use the rolling sessions that will reset the cookie and session for every request which touch the session.

Usage

Example

var koa = require('koa');
var session = require('koa-generic-session');
var RedisStore = require('koa-redis');

var app = koa();
app.keys = ['keys', 'keykeys'];
app.use(session({
  store: new RedisStore()
}));

app.use(function *() {
  switch (this.path) {
  case '/get':
    get.call(this);
    break;
  case '/remove':
    remove.call(this);
    break;
  }
});

function get() {
  var session = this.session;
  session.count = session.count || 0;
  session.count++;
  this.body = session.count;
}

function remove() {
  this.session = null;
  this.body = 0;
}

app.listen(8080);

• After adding session middleware, you can use this.session to set or get the sessions.
• Setting this.session = null; will destroy this session.
• Altering this.session.cookie changes the cookie options of this user. Also you can use the cookie options in session the store. Use for example cookie.maxage as the session store's ttl.

Options

• key: cookie name defaulting to koa.sid

• prefix: session prefix for store, defaulting to koa:sess:

• store: session store instance

• cookie: session cookie settings

• ttl: ttl is for sessionStore's expiration time. it is different with cookie.maxage, default to null(means get ttl from cookie.maxage).

• rolling: rolling session, always reset the cookie and sessions, defaults to false

• genSid: default sid was generated by uid2, you can pass a function to replace it

• defer: defers get session, only generate a session when you use it through var session = yield this.session;, defaults to false

• allowEmpty: allow generation of empty sessions

• Store can be any Object that has the methods set, get, destroy like MemoryStore.

• cookie defaulting to

{
  path: '/',
  httpOnly: true,
  maxage: null,
  rewrite: true,
  signed: true
}

For a full list of cookie options see jed/cookies.

if you setcookie.maxage to null, meaning no "expires" parameter is set so the cookie becomes a browser-session cookie. When the user closes the browser the cookie (and session) will be removed.

Notice that ttl is different from cookie.maxage, ttl set the expire time of sessionStore. So if you set cookie.maxage = null, and ttl=ms('1d'), the session will expired after one day, but the cookie will destory when the user cloese the browser. And mostly you can just ignore options.ttl, koa-generic-session will parse cookie.maxage as the tll.

Session Store

You can use any other store to replace the default MemoryStore, it just needs to follow this api:

• get(sid): get session object by sid
• set(sid, sess, ttl): set session object for sid, with a ttl (in ms)
• destroy(sid): destory session for sid

the api needs to return a Promise, Thunk or generator.

And use these events to report the store's status.

• connect
• disconnect

You can use koa-redis to store your session data with redis.

Licences

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 dead-horse and other contributors

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