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? >>> >>> --
