1.11.2 Session Module Overview

The web.session module provides two different objects to help users manage sessions. These are:

SessionManager
These objects are used to handle creation, expiry, loading, validity checks and cleanup of sessions, the handling of cookies and the creation of store objects.
SessionStore
These are the objects used to set and retrieve the values being stored for the particular application.

To begin using the session store for your application you must perform the following steps:

  1. Create a manager object and load an existing session or create a new session
  2. Obtain an application store object