app/django/contrib/sessions/backends/cache.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:00:00 +0200
changeset 2506 c98bf890156e
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Removed getSurveyResponseFromPost from Surveys helper. We will use the power of Django Forms instead of getting our own properties. This fits better into the rest of Melange which also uses this approach.

from django.contrib.sessions.backends.base import SessionBase, CreateError
from django.core.cache import cache

class SessionStore(SessionBase):
    """
    A cache-based session store.
    """
    def __init__(self, session_key=None):
        self._cache = cache
        super(SessionStore, self).__init__(session_key)

    def load(self):
        session_data = self._cache.get(self.session_key)
        if session_data is not None:
            return session_data
        self.create()
        return {}

    def create(self):
        # Because a cache can fail silently (e.g. memcache), we don't know if
        # we are failing to create a new session because of a key collision or
        # because the cache is missing. So we try for a (large) number of times
        # and then raise an exception. That's the risk you shoulder if using
        # cache backing.
        for i in xrange(10000):
            self.session_key = self._get_new_session_key()
            try:
                self.save(must_create=True)
            except CreateError:
                continue
            self.modified = True
            return
        raise RuntimeError("Unable to create a new session key.")

    def save(self, must_create=False):
        if must_create:
            func = self._cache.add
        else:
            func = self._cache.set
        result = func(self.session_key, self._get_session(no_load=must_create),
                self.get_expiry_age())
        if must_create and not result:
            raise CreateError

    def exists(self, session_key):
        if self._cache.get(session_key):
            return True
        return False

    def delete(self, session_key=None):
        if session_key is None:
            if self._session_key is None:
                return
            session_key = self._session_key
        self._cache.delete(session_key)