[Seaside] Fatal Flaw in my Web App!

[Richard K Eng]

"Oh, I see!" said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw. From the 
Seaside.st FAQ:

>From time to time, Seaside processes expired sessions (see 
#unregisterExpiredHandlers). Expired sessions are removed from Seaside, 
making them candidates for future garbage collections, then they are sent 
#unregistered. The standard implementation of #unregistered in WASession is 
empty.


#unregistered is sent *when garbage collection is done*. It's not 
necessarily executed immediately. I should've read the FAQ more carefully.

Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard K Eng" <richard.eng at rogers.com>
To: "Seaside - general discussion" <seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Seaside] Fatal Flaw in my Web App!


>I have a puzzling problem. I've made some changes to do what you suggest. 
>I've subclassed WASession:
>
> WASession subclass: #GSSession
>
> ...with instance variable #database. I've created #unregistered as 
> follows:
>
> unregistered
>    database ifNotNil: [database logout].
>    super unregistered
>
> I've put the following in #GSRegistrationLogin (my root component for the 
> app):
>
>    self application preferenceAt: #sessionClass put: GSSession
>
> And when the user logs out, the following is executed:
>
>    html anchor
>        callback: [self session expire];
>        with: [html paragraph style: 'color: red'; with: [html strong: 
> 'Logout']]
>
> But the #unregistered doesn't always get executed. Sometimes, not at all! 
> And sometimes, much later, as in the *next* time I login and logout (?!). 
> What am I doing wrong?!! Shouldn't session expiry *always* cause 
> #unregistered to execute?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
> ----------------
> John wrote:
>
> I usually store my glorp session on the seaside session, and upon
> expiring, it sends logout to the glorp session.
>
> This has the dual benefit of the above, and having easy accessor to
> glorp in the form of:
>
> self session glorpSession
>
> anywhere in my Tasks/Components.
>
> John