Sessions¶
Sessions are visitor sessions at the site.
Sessions have features life
- Login and logout, but also identified by a cookie
- Timeout
- Hold arbitary per-user data on server side
- Identified by cookies
In Plone, sessions are managed by Zope’s session_data_manager tool. The source code is in Products.Sessions.
Getting session id¶
Each session has unique id associated with it.
Setting a session parameter¶
Plone has a tool called session_data_manager.
Example:
sdm = self.context.session_data_manager
session = sdm.getSessionData(create=True)
session.set("my_option", any_python_object_supporting_pickling)
