Thanks everyone, have added an issue http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=1049
On Sunday, September 30, 2012 3:51:10 AM UTC+13, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > 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? >>>>> >>>>> --
