session

session is a simple session management module for web applications written in Go programming language.

Usage

A session object is just a string represents the session identifier (session id):

type Session string

Create a session with default timeout (1 hour):

s := session.New()

Create a session with specified timeout( in seconds):

s := session.NewTimeout(20 * time.Minute)  // 20 minutes

Check if a session exists :

ok := s.Exists()

Put something into a session:

err := s.Put("Username", "Bob")
err  = s.Put("Logintime", time.UTC())

Retrieve value from a session:

v, err :=  s.Get("Logintime") //return interface{}, need type assertion 
loginTime := v.(*time.Time)

Remove a session manually:

s.RemoveSession()

Use session.go with web.go:

s := session.New()
ctx.SetCookie("u", string(s), 3600)  //set session-cookie
err := s.Put("user", u)

session.go compiles with Go latest release:

go get github.com/cranej/session

will download, compile and install the package.

Then use it by import "github.com/cranej/session"