https://github.com/ulbora/go-better-sessions
A wrapper for gorilla sessions
https://github.com/ulbora/go-better-sessions
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A wrapper for gorilla sessions
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ulbora/go-better-sessions
- Owner: Ulbora
- Created: 2017-08-12T17:33:19.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-10-17T01:53:25.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-26T13:22:31.720Z (3 months ago)
- Language: Go
- Size: 1.95 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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go-better-sessions
==============
Go wrapper for gorilla sessions
http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions
# Installation
```
$ go get github.com/gorilla/sessions
$ go get github.com/Ulbora/go-better-sessions
```
# Usage
## Initialize and use
```
import usess github.com/Ulbora/go-better-sessions
var s usess.Session
func main() {
s.MaxAge = 5 * 60
s.Name = "user-session-test"
s.SessionKey = "554dfgdffdd11dfgf1ff1f"
}
func handleSomething(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
s.InitSessionStore(res, req)
session, err := s.GetSession(req)
if err != nil {
http.Error(res, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
}
user := session.Values["username"]
session.Values["someVal"] = "someValue"
session.Values["someOtherVal"] = 55
//do something
}
```
# 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: