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Sessions Functions

This module contains functions for accessing and modifying all registered server-side sessions. The module is mainly useful in the context of Web Applications.

The Session Module restricts these operations to the session of the current request, and needs no special permissions.

Conventions

  • The module will be available if the basex-api library is found in the classpath. This is the case if you use one of the complete distributions of BaseX (zip, exe, war).
  • All functions and errors are in the http://basex.org/modules/sessions namespace, to which the sessions prefix is statically bound.
  • If any of the functions is called outside the servlet context, basex:http is raised.
  • If a specified session id is not found, not-found is raised.
  • As session access is side-effecting, all functions are flagged as nondeterministic. As a result, some query optimizations will be suppressed.

Functions

sessions:ids

Signature
sessions:ids() as xs:string*admin
SummaryReturns the IDs of all registered sessions.

sessions:created

Signature
sessions:created(  $id  as xs:string) as xs:dateTimeadmin
SummaryReturns the creation time of the session specified by $id.

sessions:accessed

Signature
sessions:accessed(  $id  as xs:string) as xs:dateTimeadmin
SummaryReturns the last access time of the session specified by $id.

sessions:names

Signature
sessions:names(  $id  as xs:string) as xs:string*admin
SummaryReturns the names of all attributes bound to the session specified by $id.

sessions:get

Signature
sessions:get(  $id       as xs:string,  $key      as xs:string,  $default  as item()*  := ()) as item()*admin
SummaryReturns the value of the attribute with the specified $key from the session with the specified $id. If the attribute is unknown, an empty sequence or the optionally specified $default value will be returned instead.

sessions:set

Signature
sessions:set(  $id     as xs:string,  $key    as xs:string,  $value  as item()*) as empty-sequence()admin
SummaryAssigns the specified $value to the attribute with the specified $key in the session with the specified $id.

sessions:delete

Signature
sessions:delete(  $id   as xs:string,  $key  as xs:string) as empty-sequence()admin
SummaryDeletes the attribute with the specified $key from the session with the specified $id.

sessions:close

Signature
sessions:close(  $id  as xs:string) as empty-sequence()admin
SummaryUnregisters the session specified by $id.

Errors

CodeDescription
not-foundThe specified session is not available.

Changelog

Version 9.3
  • Updated: sessions:get: Values that have no XQuery type will be returned as strings.
Version 9.0
  • Updated: error codes updated; errors now use the module namespace
Version 8.4
  • Updated: Allow sequences as session values.
Version 7.5
  • Added: New module added.

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