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How to use sessions |
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Django provides full support for anonymous sessions. The session framework lets |
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you store and retrieve arbitrary data on a per-site-visitor basis. It stores |
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data on the server side and abstracts the sending and receiving of cookies. |
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Cookies contain a session ID -- not the data itself. |
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Enabling sessions |
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Sessions are implemented via a piece of middleware_ and a Django model. |
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* Edit the ``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`` setting and make sure |
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``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`` contains ``'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware'``. |
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The default ``settings.py`` created by ``django-admin.py startproject`` has |
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``SessionMiddleware`` activated. |
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* Add ``'django.contrib.sessions'`` to your ``INSTALLED_APPS`` setting, and |
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run ``manage.py syncdb`` to install the single database table that stores |
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session data. |
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If you don't want to use sessions, you might as well remove the |
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``SessionMiddleware`` line from ``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`` and ``'django.contrib.sessions'`` |
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from your ``INSTALLED_APPS``. It'll save you a small bit of overhead. |
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.. _middleware: ../middleware/ |
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Using sessions in views |
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When ``SessionMiddleware`` is activated, each ``HttpRequest`` object -- the |
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first argument to any Django view function -- will have a ``session`` |
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attribute, which is a dictionary-like object. You can read it and write to it. |
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It implements the following standard dictionary methods: |
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* ``__getitem__(key)`` |
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Example: ``fav_color = request.session['fav_color']`` |
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* ``__setitem__(key, value)`` |
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Example: ``request.session['fav_color'] = 'blue'`` |
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* ``__delitem__(key)`` |
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Example: ``del request.session['fav_color']``. This raises ``KeyError`` |
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if the given ``key`` isn't already in the session. |
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* ``__contains__(key)`` |
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Example: ``'fav_color' in request.session`` |
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* ``get(key, default=None)`` |
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Example: ``fav_color = request.session.get('fav_color', 'red')`` |
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* ``keys()`` |
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* ``items()`` |
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It also has these three methods: |
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* ``set_test_cookie()`` |
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Sets a test cookie to determine whether the user's browser supports |
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cookies. Due to the way cookies work, you won't be able to test this |
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until the user's next page request. See "Setting test cookies" below for |
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more information. |
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* ``test_cookie_worked()`` |
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Returns either ``True`` or ``False``, depending on whether the user's |
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browser accepted the test cookie. Due to the way cookies work, you'll |
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have to call ``set_test_cookie()`` on a previous, separate page request. |
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* ``delete_test_cookie()`` |
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Deletes the test cookie. Use this to clean up after yourself. |
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You can edit ``request.session`` at any point in your view. You can edit it |
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Session object guidelines |
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* Use normal Python strings as dictionary keys on ``request.session``. This |
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* Session dictionary keys that begin with an underscore are reserved for |
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This simplistic view sets a ``has_commented`` variable to ``True`` after a user |
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posts a comment. It doesn't let a user post a comment more than once:: |
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return HttpResponse('Thanks for your comment!') |
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This simplistic view logs in a "member" of the site:: |
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m = members.get_object(username__exact=request.POST['username']) |
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