Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DOD - Store your sessions in a database using Data::ObjectDriver.

    # Create a table in your database for sessions
    CREATE TABLE sessions (
        id           char(72) primary key,
        session_data text,
        expires      int(10)
    );

    # Create a Data::ObjectDriver model
    package BaseObject::M::Session;
    use base qw( Data::ObjectDriver::BaseObject );

    use Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::DBI;

    __PACKAGE__->install_properties({
        columns     => [ 'id', 'session_data', 'expires' ],
        primary_key => [ 'id' ],
        datasource  => 'sessions',
        get_driver  => sub {
            Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::DBI->new(
                dsn => "dbi:SQLite:session.db",
            ),
        },
    });

    # In your app
    use Catalyst qw/Session Session::Store::DOD Session::State::Cookie/;

    # Connect directly to the database
    MyApp->config->{session} = {
        expires => 3600,
        model   => "BaseObject::M::Session",
    };

    # ... in an action:
    $c->session->{foo} = 'bar'; # will be saved

This storage module will store session data in a database using a Data::ObjectDriver model. It is based on version 0.13 of Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DBI by Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org> and is basically a port of his module to use D::OD instead of directly interacting via DBI.

These parameters are placed in the configuration hash under the session key.

The expires column in your table will be set with the expiration value. Note that no automatic cleanup is done on your session data, but you can use the delete_expired_sessions method to perform clean up. You can make use of the Catalyst::Plugin::Scheduler plugin to schedule automated session cleanup.

Data::ObjectDriver::BaseObject::Model object which is configuered to interact with your storage engine for session information.

Your 'sessions' model must contain at minimum the following 3 attributes:

    id           char(72) primary key
    session_data text
    expires      int(10)

The 'id' column should probably be 72 characters. It needs to handle the longest string that can be returned by generate_session_id in Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication, plus another 8 characters for internal use. This is less than 72 characters in practice when SHA-1 or MD5 are used, but SHA-256 will need all those characters.

The 'session_data' column should be a long text field. Session data is encoded using Base64 before being stored in the database.

The 'expires' column stores the future expiration time of the session. This may be null for per-user and flash sessions.

These are implementations of the required methods for a store. See Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store.

Catalyst, Catalyst::Plugin::Session, Catalyst::Plugin::Scheduler

David Recordon, <david@sixapart.com>

Based on Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DBI by Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.