It also looks to me memdb should not be implemented as it is. It should be implemented as a plugin_adapter for DAL.
On Saturday, 29 September 2012 09:50:37 UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > I would prefer the syntax: > > session.connect(request, response, db=MEMDB(cache.memcache, > session_expiry=3600)) > > > > On Saturday, 29 September 2012 07:11:10 UTC-5, Niphlod wrote: >> >> yep, open a bug on http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:24:07 AM UTC+2, Robert Clark wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, I am not having any problems with the memcached api & python >>> interface, that part all works as advertised. >>> >>> The problem is that if you follow the deployment recipe for storing >>> sessions in Memcached, then they always expire after 300s and there's no >>> way to provide an expiry. Here's what's the code from deployment recipe >>> chapter of web2py book: >>> >>> from gluon.contrib.memcache import MemcacheClientmemcache_servers = >>> ['127.0.0.1:11211'] >>> cache.memcache = MemcacheClient(request, memcache_servers) >>> cache.ram = cache.disk = cache.memcache >>> >>> ..and.. >>> >>> from gluon.contrib.memdb import MEMDB >>> session.connect(request,response,db=MEMDB(cache.memcache)) >>> >>> >>> If you do this and connect to memcached with e.g. "-vv" you can see that >>> session data is passed in with 300s expiry. I may be missing something >>> obvious. Can I suggest altering the API to be something like this: >>> >>> session.connect(request, response, db=MEMDB(cache.memcache), >>> session_expiry=3600) >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 12:27:55 AM UTC+12, Jose C wrote: >>>> >>>> The only way I've found to change this is to explicitly modify the >>>>> default value from this source file. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a better way to configure this value for session expiry from >>>>> within application code? Cheers. >>>>> >>>>> Far as I know it's done like this: >>>> >>>> set(key=key, value=value, time=<seconds>) >>>> >>>> where (from the source): >>>> @param time: Tells memcached the time which this value should expire,either >>>> as a delta number of seconds, or an absolute unix time-since- >>>> the-epoch >>>> value. See the memcached protocol docs section "Storage >>>> Commands" >>>> for more info on <exptime>. We default to 0 == cache forever. >>>> >>>> Are you saying that doesn't work? >>>> >>>> --
