You answered your own question :) ... Yes that is Lift GC mechanism.
You can of course turn it off in Boot by calling ....
LiftRules.enableLiftGC=false but I would not recommend it.
Is there a real use case why you need this or just tying to figure out
how Lift works ?
Br's,
Marius
On Jul 1, 2:42 pm, Ewan <ehar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Marius
>
> I basically wound the session timeout down to 5 mins in the web.xml
> and left it for about 30 mins but the sessionVar was still full. Even
> after some hours of no use it was the same. There is this constant
> ajax_request pinging going on - related?
>
> -- Ewan
>
> On Jul 1, 12:32 pm, "marius d." <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > LiftSession is bound to HttpSession through HttpSessionBindingListener
> > and HttpSessionActivationListener
>
> > This means that when the HTTP session terminates LiftSession will also
> > terminate. To verify your SessionVar that the session was purged you
> > can implement
>
> > override protected def onShutdown(session: CleanUpParam): Unit = {
> > ...
>
> > }
>
> > where in case of SessionVar the session parameter is really a
> > LiftSession.
>
> > The LiftSession timeout is given by
> > HttpSession.getMaxInactiveInterval ... if that period is exceeded the
> > LiftSession is unbound from the HttpSession. Does not necessary means
> > that the HttpSession is removed by container ust that LiftSession is
> > terminated.
>
> > But is the problem the fact that HttpSession expired but you still had
> > the context in the SessionVar?
>
> > Br's,
> > Marius
>
> > On Jul 1, 12:47 pm, Ewan <ehar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I have recently started using a SessionVar and am quite happy to have
> > > the session wiped after some predefined interval. As an experiment I
> > > changed the session timeout in the web.xml a la Java Servlets but this
> > > had no effect running on jetty and since I have read that a SessionVar
> > > is not just a wrapper around javax.servlet.http.HttpSession. My
> > > question is then how can I configure the timeout interval?
>
> > > -- Ewan
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