Module actix_web::middleware::session

User sessions.

Actix provides a general solution for session management. The SessionStorage middleware can be used with different backend types to store session data in different backends.

By default, only cookie session backend is implemented. Other backend implementations can be added.

CookieSessionBackend uses cookies as session storage. CookieSessionBackend creates sessions which are limited to storing fewer than 4000 bytes of data, as the payload must fit into a single cookie. An internal server error is generated if a session contains more than 4000 bytes.

A cookie may have a security policy of signed or private. Each has a respective CookieSessionBackend constructor.

A signed cookie may be viewed but not modified by the client. A private cookie may neither be viewed nor modified by the client.

The constructors take a key as an argument. This is the private key for cookie session - when this value is changed, all session data is lost.

In general, you create a SessionStorage middleware and initialize it with specific backend implementation, such as a CookieSessionBackend. To access session data, HttpRequest::session() must be used. This method returns a Session object, which allows us to get or set session data.

use actix_web::{actix, server, App, HttpRequest, Result};
use actix_web::middleware::session::{RequestSession, SessionStorage, CookieSessionBackend};

fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> Result<&'static str> {
    // access session data
    if let Some(count) = req.session().get::<i32>("counter")? {
        println!("SESSION value: {}", count);
        req.session().set("counter", count+1)?;
    } else {
        req.session().set("counter", 1)?;
    }

    Ok("Welcome!")
}

fn main() {
    actix::System::run(|| {
        server::new(
          || App::new().middleware(
              SessionStorage::new(          // <- create session middleware
                CookieSessionBackend::signed(&[0; 32]) // <- create signed cookie session backend
                    .secure(false)
             )))
            .bind("127.0.0.1:59880").unwrap()
            .start();
    });
}

Structs

CookieSession	Session that uses signed cookies as session storage
CookieSessionBackend	Use cookies for session storage.
Session	The high-level interface you use to modify session data.
SessionStorage	Session storage middleware

Enums

CookieSessionError

Errors that can occur during handling cookie session

Traits

RequestSession

The helper trait to obtain your session data from a request.