koa-header-session

Header session middleware for koa, easy to use with custom stores such as redis or mongo, supports defer session getter. based on koa-generic-session(it is a header based session).

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

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

Usage

Example

 
var session = require('koa-header-session');
var redisStore = require('koa-redis');
var koa = require('koa');
 
var app = koa();
app.use(session({
  store: 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.

Options

• header: HTTP header used for session ids, defaulting to X-Session-ID

• path: Allowed path for sessions, defaulting to /

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

• store: session store instance

• 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

• errorHandler(err, type, ctx): Store.get and Store.set will throw in some situation, use errorHandle to handle these errors by yourself. Default will throw.

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

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

Stores Presented

• koa-redis to store your session data with redis.
• koa-mysql-session to store your session data with MySQL.
• koa-generic-session-mongo to store your session data with MongoDB.

Licences

(The MIT License)

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

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