Hello mdipierro, i only store basic python datatypes (dictionaries, floats, strings). The most complex variables that i store are dictionaries inside other dictionaries, with a max depth of 2 (i.e., a first dictionary with secondary dictionaries inside it). It is a bit strange for, while using the same client browser on the same app instance (i.e., without reloading), after a while web2py ignores the first session file and creates a second one. In other words, in what situations is web2py designed to do this behavior?
Also, are there any kind of methods for clearing the session files? Because with this kind of behavior, one gets the session folder filled up very fast.. Is there any possibilty of session timeout and file deletion? Ah, this has already happened before, and the only common thing that i've detected so far is that i use tab navigation with jquery's ajax function to load content to a div. Any hints? Thanks, João Ventura PS: I'll try to debug my application down to the web2py source code to see if something triggers my thought. Any ideia where to start searching? By the way, web2py is a great framework, i've started with Django, couldn't do almost no production there, switch to web2py, and production increased a lot... Just this annoying session behavior, but hope it's a small bug.. On 6 Jun, 06:36, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > The only thing that comes to mind is if you try store an object in the > session. The object may be an instance of class that you define and > therefore web2py succeeds in storing the session but fails to retrieve > it because the class is not yet defined (or imported) at the time when > the session is retrieved (before your user code it executed). > > You can only store primitive types in session, not objects. > > On Jun 5, 9:04 pm, João Ventura <joaojonesvent...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > i've searched a lot but couldn't find any answer to the following: I'm > > developing a web application, and i rely heavily on sessions, storing > > all the user data on a session while the user uses a jquery tab > > interface. The problem is that sometimes web2py loses the session > > object, and it is almost in the same manner. I've checked my code many > > times and i don't mess with the session object. > > > But as web2py does manage sessions automatically, i see that the first > > time i use the app, web2py creates a session file in the session > > folder. And when the contents of the first session disappears, when i > > check the "sessions" folder, the previous session file is there with > > all its contents, but now there's a new (empty) session file. > > > I can't give a simple example how to replicate the error, but i think > > web2py shouldn't lose the first session, because: > > - I haven't explicitely called anything like "session.forget()" that > > could influence. > > - I haven't opened any other browser instance, tab or any other > > browser at all. > > > Anybody knows anything about this? > > > Thanks, > > João Ventura
