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NAME

Dancer::Session::MongoDB - MongoDB session backend for Dancer.

SYNOPSIS

        # in your config.yml file:
        session: "MongoDB"
        mongodb_session_db: "myapp_database"    # required
        mongodb_session_coll: "myapp_sessions"  # optional, defaults to 'sessions'

        # you can pass connection options to MongoDB::MongoClient::new() by
        # prefixing them with 'mongodb_' like so:
        mongodb_host: "mongo.server.com"        # defaults to 'localhost'
        mongodb_port: 27017                     # this is the default
        mongodb_username: "mongodb_user"
        mongodb_password: "secret_password"

        # now you can use sessions in your app as described in L<Dancer::Session>.
        # for example:
        session user => params->{user};
        
        ...
        
        if (session('user')) {
                my $msg = "Welcome back, ".session('user');
        }

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a MongoDB based session engine for Dancer applications. It keeps session data in a MongoDB collection, providing you with a simple, easy to setup, yet powerful session backend.

If you're running your Dancer application in a PSGI/Plack environment, please consider using Plack::Session::Store::MongoDB with Dancer::Session::PSGI instead.

This module is a subclass of Dancer::Session::Abstract.

CONFIGURATION

In order to use this session engine, you need to define a few settings in your app's settings file (or in your app's code):

  • session

    Give this the value "MongoDB" (using this exact capitalization). This is required.

  • mongodb_session_db

    Give this the name of the MongoDB database to use. This is required.

  • mongodb_session_coll

    The name of the collection in which session objects will be stored. Optional, defaults to 'sessions'.

Optionally, you can also define options for initiating the connection to the MongoDB server, as described in "ATTRIBUTES" in MongoDB::Connection, by prefixing them with 'mongodb_'. For example, if your database requires authentication, you can pass the 'mongodb_username', 'mongodb_password' and possibly 'mongodb_db_name' to authenticate. Or, if your database server is not located on the same server your application resides, then you can provide 'mongodb_host' and possibly 'mongodb_port'.

CLASS METHODS

init()

create()

Creates a new session object and returns it.

retrieve( $id )

Returns the session object whose ID is $id if exists, otherwise returns a false value.

OBJECT METHODS

flush()

Writes the session object to the MongoDB database. If a database error occurs and the object is not saved, this method will die.

destroy()

Removes the session object from the MongoDB database. If a database error occurs and the object is not removed, this method will generate a warning.

AUTHORS

Ido Perlmuter, <ido at ido50 dot net>

Rodrigo de Oliveira, <rodrigolive at gmail dot com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-dancer-session-mongodb at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Dancer-Session-MongoDB. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Dancer::Session::MongoDB

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Alexis Sukrieh, author of Dancer::Session::Memcached, on which this module is based.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010-2014 Ido Perlmuter.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.