View Source Plug.Session.Store behaviour (Plug v1.16.0)

Specification for session stores.

Summary

Types

The cookie value that will be sent in cookie headers. This value should be base64 encoded to avoid security issues.

The session contents, the final data to be stored after it has been built with Plug.Conn.put_session/3 and the other session manipulating functions.

The internal reference to the session in the store.

Callbacks

Removes the session associated with given session id from the store.

Parses the given cookie.

Initializes the store.

Stores the session associated with given session id.

Functions

Gets the store name from an atom or a module.

Types

@type cookie() :: binary()

The cookie value that will be sent in cookie headers. This value should be base64 encoded to avoid security issues.

@type session() :: map()

The session contents, the final data to be stored after it has been built with Plug.Conn.put_session/3 and the other session manipulating functions.

@type sid() :: term() | nil

The internal reference to the session in the store.

Callbacks

@callback delete(conn :: Plug.Conn.t(), sid(), opts :: Plug.opts()) :: :ok

Removes the session associated with given session id from the store.

@callback get(conn :: Plug.Conn.t(), cookie(), opts :: Plug.opts()) :: {sid(), session()}

Parses the given cookie.

Returns a session id and the session contents. The session id is any value that can be used to identify the session by the store.

The session id may be nil in case the cookie does not identify any value in the store. The session contents must be a map.

@callback init(opts :: Plug.opts()) :: Plug.opts()

Initializes the store.

The options returned from this function will be given to get/3, put/4 and delete/3.

Link to this callback

put(conn, sid, any, opts)

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@callback put(conn :: Plug.Conn.t(), sid(), any(), opts :: Plug.opts()) :: cookie()

Stores the session associated with given session id.

If nil is given as id, a new session id should be generated and returned.

Functions

Gets the store name from an atom or a module.

iex> Plug.Session.Store.get(CustomStore)
CustomStore

iex> Plug.Session.Store.get(:cookie)
Plug.Session.COOKIE