[Seaside] handling expired sessions

[Frank Shearar]

On 2010/06/17 15:43, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
> 2010/6/17 Frank Shearar<frank.shearar at angband.za.org>:
>> On 2010/06/17 09:04, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>>
>>> MySession>>expire
>>>    super expire.
>>>    self redirectTo: 'http://yoursiteaddress'
>>>
>>> to redisplay an expired session.
>>
>> That's been deprecated.
>>
>
> Yes, in 3.0 which is not yet the stable version as you may read in
> http://www.seaside.st/download/pharo

Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks, Hernán!

frank

>> The deprecation notice says this:
>>
>> "This method might be reimplemented again. In the meantime, if you just want
>> to remove the Session from the Application, use WASession>>unregister
>> (#unregistered will be called as a notification instead of #expired).
>> Otherwise you should consider adding a Request Filter to the Session that
>> implements whatever behaviour you want in order to block access to the
>> Session."
>>
>> (No, I'm afraid I can't yet turn that into more meaningful advice!)
>
> (right, a pointer explaining how to add a Request Filter would be nice)
>
>> From http://www.seaside.st/documentation/migration/28to30
>
> "The session cache on WAApplication has been made pluggable so expiry
> behaviour is no longer contained within WASession  itself. Methods
> like #lastAccess, #secondsSinceLastAccess, #timeoutSeconds,
> #timeoutSeconds:, and #isActive  currently do not exist. We are
> thinking about how best to provide this functionality in later alpha
> releases but in the meantime you will have to do without them.
> Sessions will also now receive #unregistered  rather than #expired
> when they are removed from the cache."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hernán