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REST-Sessions
A REST interface to handle and share sessions between different app server platforms. Based on redis-sessions.
Installation
npm i -g rest-sessions
via Docker
https://hub.docker.com/r/smrchy/docker-rest-sessions/
Configuration
Use the following environment variables to set the listening port and Redis host and port:
- RS_PORT
- RS_REDISHOST
- RS_REDISPORT
- RS_NAMESPACE (Redis namespace prefix: defaults to
drs
) - RS_LOGLEVEL (a morgan loglevel or
none
to disable logging)
Methods
PUT /:app/create/:id
Create a session for :app and user :id
Parameters:
ip
The IP of the userttl
optional (default: 7200) The timeout for the session in seconds
Example:
PUT /mywebapp/create/user123?ip=192.168.99.22&ttl=86400
Response:
{"token": "KrxwdpUjoTQcYmMISjQE2C4drmXMhn5w2gX0388UySdPYoEJkPa74nhZhg3iaj7w"}
Note: You should save this token in a cookie and use it in subsequent requests to identify the user via GET /:app/get/:token
If might use the put request to add additional paramenters to the session. Just supply them in the body (see the POST request) and set the Content-Type to application/json
.
GET /:app/get/:token
Get a session for :app and :token
Example:
GET /mywebapp/get/KrxwdpUjoTQcYmMISjQE2C4drmXMhn5w2gX0388UySdPYoEJkPa74nhZhg3iaj7w
Response:
{
"id": "user123",
"r": 1, // The read counter for this session
"w": 1, // The write counter for this session
"ttl": 86400,
"idle": 273, // The idle time since the previous request
"ip": "192.168.99.22"
}
POST /:app/set/:token
Set some additional parameters for this session via a simple JSON object supplied via the POST body.
Example 1:
POST /mywebapp/set/KrxwdpUjoTQcYmMISjQE2C4drmXMhn5w2gX0388UySdPYoEJkPa74nhZhg3iaj7w
Content-Type: application/json
{
"name": "Peter Smith",
"unread_msgs": 12
}
Response:
{
"id": "user123",
"r": 1,
"w": 2,
"ttl": 86400,
"idle": 211,
"ip": "192.168.99.22",
"d": {
"name": "Peter Smith",
"unread_msgs": 12,
"age": 46
}
}
Example 2:
- To remove a key set it to
null
- If you omit a key it will stay untouched
POST /mywebapp/set/KrxwdpUjoTQcYmMISjQE2C4drmXMhn5w2gX0388UySdPYoEJkPa74nhZhg3iaj7w
Content-Type: application/json
{
"name": "Bruce Dickinson",
"unread_msgs": null,
"job": "making gold records"
}
Response:
Note that the unread_msgs
field was removed and age
was not touched.
{
"id": "user123",
"r": 1,
"w": 3,
"ttl": 86400,
"idle": 17,
"ip": "192.168.99.22",
"d": {
"name": "Bruce Dickinson",
"age": 46,
"job": "making gold records"
}
}
GET /:app/activity
Get the number of active unique users (not sessions!) within the last n seconds
Parameters:
dt
Delta time. Amount of seconds to check (e.g. 600 for the last 10 min.)
Example:
GET /mywebapp/activity?dt=600
Response:
{"activity": 1}
GET /:app/soapp
Get all sessions of an app that were active within the last n seconds
Parameters:
dt
Delta time. Amount of seconds to check (e.g. 600 for the last 10 min.)
Example:
GET /mywebapp/soapp?dt=600
Response:
{"sessions":
[
{
"id": "user123",
"r": 1,
"w": 3,
"ttl": 86400,
"idle": 17,
"ip": "192.168.99.22",
"d": {
"name": "Bruce Dickinson",
"age": 46,
"job": "making gold records"
}
},
{
"id": "user456",
"r": 4,
"w": 3,
"ttl": 86400,
"idle": 217,
"ip": "192.168.99.25"
}
]
}
GET /:app/soid/:id
Get all sessions of a single id within an app.
Example:
GET /mywebapp/soid/user456
Response:
{"sessions":
[
{
"id": "user456",
"r": 4,
"w": 3,
"ttl": 86400,
"idle": 217,
"ip": "192.168.99.25"
},
{
"id": "user456",
"r": 42,
"w": 31,
"ttl": 86400,
"idle": 23107,
"ip": "10.0.2.45"
}
]
}
DELETE /:app/kill/:token
Kill a single session of an app.
Example:
DELETE /mywebapp/kill/KrxwdpUjoTQcYmMISjQE2C4drmXMhn5w2gX0388UySdPYoEJkPa74nhZhg3iaj7w
Response:
{"kill": 1}
DELETE /:app/killsoid/:id
A single unique user id might have multiple sessions on different devices and/or browsers. This methods kills all sessions of an id.
Example:
DELETE /mywebapp/killsoid/user123
Response:
{"kill": 3}
DELETE /:app/killall
Kills all sessions of an app.
Example:
DELETE /mywebapp/killall
Response:
{"kill": 42}
GET /ping
Pings the redis server and returns
PONG
License
(The MIT License)
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