Thanks Adam, I'll look into that!

2016-11-23 21:14 GMT-02:00 Adam Herzog <a...@adamherzog.com>:
> On Oct 23, 2016, at 14:55, Hector Azpurua <h3ct0r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a recommended way to access or modify session data stored in
>> database with Store::DBI ?
>
> The session data is typically a hashref of data, serialized using Storable, 
> and converted to Base64 for storage in the database. Look at the 
> get_session_data() and store_session_data() in 
> Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DBI to see how the data is retrieved and 
> stored: https://metacpan.org/source/Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DBI#L24
>
> You can do the same thing. From code outside Catalyst you can use DBI or 
> DBIx::Class or whatever to SELECT the data from the database, decode/thaw it, 
> work with it however you'd like, then freeze/encode it and UPDATE the db 
> record. You'll probably want to wrap that in a transaction.
>
> A separate problem is that the session data is keyed on the session id, not 
> the username, so you won't be able to directly SELECT the session data for a 
> particular username. You'd need to select and examine each session to find 
> the username in $session_data->{'__user'}. Or maybe create a subclass of 
> Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DBI and store the username as a separate 
> column in the sessions table. I have no idea how difficult that would be, but 
> I bet it's manageable.
>
> -A
>
>
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