gaeutilities sounds nice, but in practice it is real slow. Use gaesessions or webapp2 sessions instead: https://github.com/dound/gae-sessions/wiki/comparison-with-alternative-libraries
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Emlyn <emlynore...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying the gaeutilities session library for some new apps I'm building. > > http://gaeutilities.appspot.com/session > > I'm using it for two things: > > - basic, old school session stuff (ie: a dictionary persistent across > user visits) > > - securing ajax callbacks (the session contains the indication of > whether the user is logged in; session library's cookie goes from > server to client, back through ajax call through rest interface to > server, session is reconsituted based on it, if it's not the same one > then there's no login indication, call fails) > > The library is pretty cool, a bit magical actually. I'm reading the > code to try to understand the magic, and think I'm getting a handle on > it. > > However, in the doc, there is this: > > "In order to take advantage of the token system for an authentication > system, you will want to tie sessions to accounts, and make sure only > one session is valid for an account. You can do this by setting a > db.ReferenceProperty(_AppEngineUtilities_Session) attribute on your > user Model, and use the get_ds_entity() method on a valid session to > populate it on login." > > Why would I want to do this? I'm happy for two separate logins by the > same person to have different sessions, and I'm happy for subsequent > visits to begin with an empty session dictionary each time. Am I > missing something here? > > -- > Emlyn > > http://my.syyn.cc - Synchonise Google+, Facebook, WordPress and Google > Buzz posts, > comments and all. > http://point7.wordpress.com - My blog > Find me on Facebook and Buzz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
