aiohttp-session 0.1.1

sessions for aiohttp.web

aiohttp_session

The library provides sessions for aiohttp.web.

Usage

The library allows to store user-specific data into session object.

The session object has dict-like interface (operations like session[key] = value, value = session[key] etc. are present).

Before processing session in web-handler you have to register session middleware in aiohttp.web.Application.

A trivial usage example:

import asycio
import time
from aiohttp import web
import aiohttp_session

@asyncio.coroutine
def handler(request):
    session = yield from aiohttp_session.get_session(request)
    session['last_visit'] = time.time()
    return web.Response('OK')

app = web.Application(middlewares=[aiohttp_session.session_middleware(
    aiohttp_session.EncryptedCookieStorage(b'Sixteen byte key'))])

app.router.add_route('GET', '/', handler)

All storages uses HTTP Cookie named AIOHTTP_COOKIE_SESSION for storing data.

Available session storages are:

• aiohttp_session.SimpleCookieStorage() – keeps session data as plain JSON string in cookie body. Use the storage only for testing purposes, it’s very non-secure.

• aiohttp_session.cookie_storage.EncryptedCookieStorage(secret_key) – stores session data into cookies as SimpleCookieStorage but encodes it via AES cipher. secrect_key is a bytes key for AES encryption/decryption, the length should be 16 bytes.

  Requires PyCrypto library:

  $ pip install aiohttp_session[pycrypto]

• aiohttp_session.redis_storage.RedisStorage(redis_pool) – stores JSON-ed data into redis, keepeng into cookie only redis key (random UUID). redis_pool is aioredis pool object, created by yield from aioredis.create_pool(...) call.

  Requires aioredis library:

  $ pip install aiohttp_session[aioredis]

License

aiohttp_session is offered under the Apache 2 license.

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