[Zope] Invalidating a session, creating a new

[Sune Broendum Woeller]

Sorry, I'm running both zope 2.7.1
and 2.7.2. (Windows XP, and FreeBSD)

Sune


>
>
> Which Zope are you running?  There were major changes to the session
> mechanism in 2.7.X.
>
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Sune Broendum Woeller wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In the zope book, sessions chapter, is written:
> >
> > "Manually Invalidating A Session Data Object
> >
> > Developers can manually invalidate a session data object. When a session
> > data object is invalidated, it will be flushed from the system,
> and will not
> > be returned by subsequent references to REQUEST.SESSION or
> getSessionData().
> > "
> >
> > and :
> >
> > "...subsequent references to REQUEST.SESSION in this same request will
> > return a new session data object."
> >
> > I would like to be able to invalidate the session object, and
> then create a
> > new session with a new key, to be accessed in the next request.
> >
> > But I find that when invalidating a session data object, I can *still*
> > access the old session data in subsequent references to
> REQUEST.SESSION, in
> > the same request that is. I do not get a new session data object, as I
> > should according to the zope book. And therefore I can not
> reference the new
> > keys I create in the following requests.
> >
> > Has anyone got a solution for this problem ?
> >
> > It seems the invalidation goes on "between" requests.
> >
> > Is this an error with the sessioning machinery or in the zope book ?
> >
> > Below there are three test scripts, that shows what is going on.
> >
> > greetings,
> > Sune B. Woeller
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > file test1.py:
> > ******
> > s = context.REQUEST.SESSION
> >
> > s['mykey']='myvalue'
> >
> > print "Page 1, add a key to session.<br />"
> > print "session : <br />"
> > print s
> > print "<br /><br />"
> > print '<a href ="test2">Page 2, invalidate session and add a
> new key</a><br
> > />'
> > print '<a href ="test3">Page 3, show session</a><br />'
> >
> > return printed
> >
> > *****
> >
> > file test2.py:
> > *****
> > s = context.REQUEST.SESSION
> >
> > print "Page 2, invalidate session and add a new key.<br />"
> >
> > s.invalidate()
> >
> > s['mySecondKey']='mySecondValue'
> > print "session after invalidate: <br />"
> > print s
> >
> > print "<br /><br />"
> > print '<a href ="test1">Page 1, add a key to session</a><br />'
> > print '<a href ="test3">Page 3, show session</a><br />'
> >
> > return printed
> >
> > *****
> >
> > file test3.py:
> > *****
> > s = context.REQUEST.SESSION
> > print "Page 3, show session<br />"
> > print "session : <br />"
> > print s
> >
> > print "<br /><br />"
> > print '<a href ="test1">Page 1</a><br />'
> > print '<a href ="test2">Page 2</a><br />'
> >
> > return printed
> >
> >
> >
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