Hello Joshua, as written on the disclaimer in the tutorial <https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/express-memcached-session-appengine> you linked to, community tutorials submitted from the community do not represent official Google Cloud Platform product documentation. It also never states that App Engine doesn't support sessions. Additionally, that tutorial refers to App Engine Flexible while the documentation <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/config/appref> you linked to is for App Engine Standard.
Note that session support is something that is done per-runtime and per-framework, but most if not all of them include it as it is indeed a basic feature of a web server. Part of the Bookshelf tutorial deals with using sessions <https://cloud.google.com/java/getting-started-appengine-standard/authenticate-users> . On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 3:30:28 AM UTC-4, Joshua Fox wrote: > > What is the recommended way to do Session Management on Google Application > Engine? > > In the webapp world, the usual implementation with a session store > (Redis/Memcache/RDBMS etc) that is shared by all server-instances. > > So, when the Java code calls > > request.getSession().setAttribute("UserName", username); > > that value will be accessible for multiple requests > by this browser. > > A websearch shows some advice: > > - Implement it yourself > - Various open-source libraries, non-standard and mostly unmaintained > > I would expect a PaaS like GAE to have Session Management > out-of-the-box. > > This StackOverflow answer > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28689941/how-to-deal-with-sessions-in-google-app-engine> > says "AppEngine > uses Datastore to store the session informations and memcache for faster > access" and this official documentation > <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/config/appref> > mentions that > "Session data is always written synchronously to memcache." > > But on the other hand this tutorial > <https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/express-memcached-session-appengine> > suggests > that session management must be added to GAE. > > How should we do Session Management? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/764e06ad-4d90-45bd-8bcd-e801913976a0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
