Stephen Deasey wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Ian Harding <harding....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am migrating to Naviserver from AOLServer mostly because of the >> excellent nsdbi module. >> >> My existing code is depended on the nssession module >> http://bas.scheffers.net/aolserver/ . It doesn't compile and run >> unmodified under Naviserver, but before I start hacking on it, is >> there an existing session module or a tcl solution that someone else >> has already written? >> >> > > > I'm not sure that it's worth porting that module. The cache locking is > broken, the file handling looks dodgy, and in general it has some odd > ideas about configuration and string handling. > > If all you need to do is replicate some ns_session Tcl commands so > your existing code works then the easiest way would be to create a > work-alike using the existing naviserver Tcl commands: > > * cookie handling: naviserver has this built in: > http://naviserver.sourceforge.net/n/naviserver/files/ns_cookie.html > > * caching: also now built in: > http://naviserver.sourceforge.net/n/naviserver/files/ns_cache.html > > * persisting the session: just use nsdbi, if you're already using > it. If you really want > to use the file system, use ns_hashpath in nsd/pathname.c to > prevent enormous > directories from bogging down the server. > > * ns_rand: already exposed. > > > It will be more robust than than the C nssession module, and almost > certainly faster too. > > > If you want to create something fancier as a C module, I'd be > interested in helping. > Here is my lame hack at a tcl module. It has some problems and is not done, but it does seem to work for certain small values of "work".
http://code.google.com/p/grop/source/browse/trunk/nssession.tcl I want to "hide" the internal methods (id, load, etc) in a separate namespace, and will use a proper session id generator. I'd like to get rid of the upvar session_id. I wanted to use the connid as a key in a cache to lookup the session_id for those cases where there is not a cookie set yet. I couldn't figure out how to get it. I was hoping there was a "ns_conn id" I could use. Anyway, I would appreciate all input on things I am doing wrong or could do better. - Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ naviserver-devel mailing list naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/naviserver-devel
