Set up multiple session handlers on python webapp2

Question

I'm writing a simple web application in google appengine and python. In this application I need to handle two types of sessions: the "long term session" that stores information about users, current page ecc, with long max_age parameter and the "short term session" with max_age about 20 minutes that keep an access token for the autentication via API.

I have implemented the following BaseHandler:

import webapp2
from webapp2_extras import sessions

class BaseHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):

def dispatch(self):
    # Get a session store for this request.
    self.session_store = sessions.get_store(request=self.request)

    try:
        # Dispatch the request.
        webapp2.RequestHandler.dispatch(self)
    finally:
        # Save all sessions.
        self.session_store.save_sessions(self.response)

@webapp2.cached_property
def session(self):
    # Returns a session using the default cookie key.
    return self.session_store.get_session(backend='memcache')

@webapp2.cached_property
def session_auth(self):
    return self.session_store.get_session(backend='memcache', max_age=20*60)<code>

the problem is that all sessions have max_age=20*60 seconds (and not only the sessions accessible by self.session_auth).. How should I solve this?

thanks

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '16 at 18:59

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Try setting your config params:

config = {}
config['webapp2_extras.sessions'] = {
    'session_max_age': 100000,   # try None here also, though that is the default
}

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
    ('/', HomeHandler),
], debug=True, config=config)

answered Sep 05 '16 at 18:59

GAEfan

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I have tried to set the parameter session_max_age, but this acts on the whole sessions, not only session_auth.. – Gianluca Brilli Sep 06 '16 at 06:53
Yes, but once these are set, you can change session_auth, and the others should remain at your default. – GAEfan Sep 06 '16 at 16:13

Set up multiple session handlers on python webapp2

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