NAME

Dancer::Session::JSON - JSON session backend for Dancer

VERSION

version 0.002

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a session engine based on JSON files. Session are stored in a session_dir as JSON files. The idea behind this module was to provide a transparent session storage for the developer.

This backend is intended to be used in development environments, when looking inside a session can be useful.

It's not recommended to use this session engine in production environments.

Typically you would want to use Dancer::Session::YAML for this, which comes in core, but a demand for a faster-but-still-file-based session backend arose, and thus you now have JSON. :)

CONFIGURATION

The setting session should be set to JSON in order to use this session engine in a Dancer application.

Files will be stored to the value of the setting session_dir, whose default value is appdir/sessions.

Here is an example configuration that use this session engine and stores session files in /tmp/dancer-sessions

    session:     "JSON"
    session_dir: "/tmp/dancer-sessions"

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

init

Initializes the session backend.

create

Creates a new object, runs flush and returns the object.

flush

Writes the session information to the session dir.

retrieve

Retrieves session information from the session dir.

destroy

Deletes session information from the session dir.

reset

Wipes the sessions directory, forcing a test for existence of the sessions directory next time a session is created. It takes no argument.

This is particulary useful if you want to remove the sessions directory on the system where your app is running, but you want this session engine to continue to work without having to restart your application.

SEE ALSO

Dancer::Session::YAML - the original core development session backend.

Dancer::Session::Simple - a faster in-memory core session backend.

Dancer::Session::Cookie - an encrypted cookie session backend, suitable for production.

AUTHOR

Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Sawyer X.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Dancer::Session::JSON

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Dancer::Session::JSON