diff options
author | Tuomo Ala-Vannesluoma <tuomoav@gmail.com> | 2018-04-06 18:23:58 +0300 |
---|---|---|
committer | Tuomo Ala-Vannesluoma <tuomoav@gmail.com> | 2018-06-30 22:50:19 +0300 |
commit | 9cf40354085f4b4446f06d4d03926dcaa6ab9565 (patch) | |
tree | eb6ade3a82feec5f9b258417f41a8fecd3e9aec9 /vendor/github.com/gorilla/sessions/doc.go | |
parent | c4a419ed595281f62977fd47aa30d225c4eddb5d (diff) |
Add support for private projects and authentication with GitLab API
Diffstat (limited to 'vendor/github.com/gorilla/sessions/doc.go')
-rw-r--r-- | vendor/github.com/gorilla/sessions/doc.go | 198 |
1 files changed, 198 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/gorilla/sessions/doc.go b/vendor/github.com/gorilla/sessions/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 00000000..57a52917 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/gorilla/sessions/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +// Copyright 2012 The Gorilla Authors. All rights reserved. +// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style +// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. + +/* +Package sessions provides cookie and filesystem sessions and +infrastructure for custom session backends. + +The key features are: + + * Simple API: use it as an easy way to set signed (and optionally + encrypted) cookies. + * Built-in backends to store sessions in cookies or the filesystem. + * Flash messages: session values that last until read. + * Convenient way to switch session persistency (aka "remember me") and set + other attributes. + * Mechanism to rotate authentication and encryption keys. + * Multiple sessions per request, even using different backends. + * Interfaces and infrastructure for custom session backends: sessions from + different stores can be retrieved and batch-saved using a common API. + +Let's start with an example that shows the sessions API in a nutshell: + + import ( + "net/http" + "github.com/gorilla/sessions" + ) + + var store = sessions.NewCookieStore([]byte("something-very-secret")) + + func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { + // Get a session. Get() always returns a session, even if empty. + session, err := store.Get(r, "session-name") + if err != nil { + http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError) + return + } + + // Set some session values. + session.Values["foo"] = "bar" + session.Values[42] = 43 + // Save it before we write to the response/return from the handler. + session.Save(r, w) + } + +First we initialize a session store calling NewCookieStore() and passing a +secret key used to authenticate the session. Inside the handler, we call +store.Get() to retrieve an existing session or a new one. Then we set some +session values in session.Values, which is a map[interface{}]interface{}. +And finally we call session.Save() to save the session in the response. + +Note that in production code, we should check for errors when calling +session.Save(r, w), and either display an error message or otherwise handle it. + +Save must be called before writing to the response, otherwise the session +cookie will not be sent to the client. + +Important Note: If you aren't using gorilla/mux, you need to wrap your handlers +with context.ClearHandler as or else you will leak memory! An easy way to do this +is to wrap the top-level mux when calling http.ListenAndServe: + + http.ListenAndServe(":8080", context.ClearHandler(http.DefaultServeMux)) + +The ClearHandler function is provided by the gorilla/context package. + +That's all you need to know for the basic usage. Let's take a look at other +options, starting with flash messages. + +Flash messages are session values that last until read. The term appeared with +Ruby On Rails a few years back. When we request a flash message, it is removed +from the session. To add a flash, call session.AddFlash(), and to get all +flashes, call session.Flashes(). Here is an example: + + func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { + // Get a session. + session, err := store.Get(r, "session-name") + if err != nil { + http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError) + return + } + + // Get the previous flashes, if any. + if flashes := session.Flashes(); len(flashes) > 0 { + // Use the flash values. + } else { + // Set a new flash. + session.AddFlash("Hello, flash messages world!") + } + session.Save(r, w) + } + +Flash messages are useful to set information to be read after a redirection, +like after form submissions. + +There may also be cases where you want to store a complex datatype within a +session, such as a struct. Sessions are serialised using the encoding/gob package, +so it is easy to register new datatypes for storage in sessions: + + import( + "encoding/gob" + "github.com/gorilla/sessions" + ) + + type Person struct { + FirstName string + LastName string + Email string + Age int + } + + type M map[string]interface{} + + func init() { + + gob.Register(&Person{}) + gob.Register(&M{}) + } + +As it's not possible to pass a raw type as a parameter to a function, gob.Register() +relies on us passing it a value of the desired type. In the example above we've passed +it a pointer to a struct and a pointer to a custom type representing a +map[string]interface. (We could have passed non-pointer values if we wished.) This will +then allow us to serialise/deserialise values of those types to and from our sessions. + +Note that because session values are stored in a map[string]interface{}, there's +a need to type-assert data when retrieving it. We'll use the Person struct we registered above: + + func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { + session, err := store.Get(r, "session-name") + if err != nil { + http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError) + return + } + + // Retrieve our struct and type-assert it + val := session.Values["person"] + var person = &Person{} + if person, ok := val.(*Person); !ok { + // Handle the case that it's not an expected type + } + + // Now we can use our person object + } + +By default, session cookies last for a month. This is probably too long for +some cases, but it is easy to change this and other attributes during +runtime. Sessions can be configured individually or the store can be +configured and then all sessions saved using it will use that configuration. +We access session.Options or store.Options to set a new configuration. The +fields are basically a subset of http.Cookie fields. Let's change the +maximum age of a session to one week: + + session.Options = &sessions.Options{ + Path: "/", + MaxAge: 86400 * 7, + HttpOnly: true, + } + +Sometimes we may want to change authentication and/or encryption keys without +breaking existing sessions. The CookieStore supports key rotation, and to use +it you just need to set multiple authentication and encryption keys, in pairs, +to be tested in order: + + var store = sessions.NewCookieStore( + []byte("new-authentication-key"), + []byte("new-encryption-key"), + []byte("old-authentication-key"), + []byte("old-encryption-key"), + ) + +New sessions will be saved using the first pair. Old sessions can still be +read because the first pair will fail, and the second will be tested. This +makes it easy to "rotate" secret keys and still be able to validate existing +sessions. Note: for all pairs the encryption key is optional; set it to nil +or omit it and and encryption won't be used. + +Multiple sessions can be used in the same request, even with different +session backends. When this happens, calling Save() on each session +individually would be cumbersome, so we have a way to save all sessions +at once: it's sessions.Save(). Here's an example: + + var store = sessions.NewCookieStore([]byte("something-very-secret")) + + func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { + // Get a session and set a value. + session1, _ := store.Get(r, "session-one") + session1.Values["foo"] = "bar" + // Get another session and set another value. + session2, _ := store.Get(r, "session-two") + session2.Values[42] = 43 + // Save all sessions. + sessions.Save(r, w) + } + +This is possible because when we call Get() from a session store, it adds the +session to a common registry. Save() uses it to save all registered sessions. +*/ +package sessions |