Mastering Django: Core

Using sessions out of views

The examples in this section import the SessionStore object directly from the django.contrib.sessions.backends.db backend. In your own code, you should consider importing SessionStore from the session engine designated by SESSION_ENGINE, as below:

>>> from importlib import import_module 
>>> from django.conf import settings 
>>> SessionStore = import_module(settings.SESSION_ENGINE).SessionStore 

An API is available to manipulate session data outside of a view:

>>> from django.contrib.sessions.backends.db import SessionStore >>> s = SessionStore() >>> # stored as seconds since epoch since datetimes are not serializable in JSON. >>> s['last_login'] = 1376587691 >>> s.save() >>> s.session_key '2b1189a188b44ad18c35e113ac6ceead' ...