Flask Session Management

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Server Side Session with Redis

import pickle
from datetime import timedelta
from uuid import uuid4
from redis import Redis
from werkzeug.datastructures import CallbackDict
from flask.sessions import SessionInterface, SessionMixin


class RedisSession(CallbackDict, SessionMixin):

    def __init__(self, initial=None, sid=None, new=False):
        def on_update(self):
            self.modified = True
        CallbackDict.__init__(self, initial, on_update)
        self.sid = sid
        self.new = new
        self.modified = False


class RedisSessionInterface(SessionInterface):
    serializer = pickle
    session_class = RedisSession

    def __init__(self, redis=None, prefix='session:'):
        if redis is None:
            redis = Redis()
        self.redis = redis
        self.prefix = prefix

    def generate_sid(self):
        return str(uuid4())

    def get_redis_expiration_time(self, app, session):
        if session.permanent:
            return app.permanent_session_lifetime
        return timedelta(days=1)

    def open_session(self, app, request):
        sid = request.cookies.get(app.session_cookie_name)
        if not sid:
            sid = self.generate_sid()
            return self.session_class(sid=sid, new=True)
        val = self.redis.get(self.prefix + sid)
        if val is not None:
            data = self.serializer.loads(val)
            return self.session_class(data, sid=sid)
        return self.session_class(sid=sid, new=True)

    def save_session(self, app, session, response):
        domain = self.get_cookie_domain(app)
        if not session:
            self.redis.delete(self.prefix + session.sid)
            if session.modified:
                response.delete_cookie(app.session_cookie_name,
                                       domain=domain)
            return
        redis_exp = self.get_redis_expiration_time(app, session)
        cookie_exp = self.get_expiration_time(app, session)
        val = self.serializer.dumps(dict(session))
        self.redis.setex(self.prefix + session.sid, val,
                         int(redis_exp.total_seconds()))
        response.set_cookie(app.session_cookie_name, session.sid,
                            expires=cookie_exp, httponly=True,
                            domain=domain)


Here is how to enable it:

app = Flask(__name__)
app.session_interface = RedisSessionInterface()

If you get an attribute error that total_seconds is missing it means you're using a version of Python older than 2.7. In this case you can use this function as a replacement for the total_seconds method:

def total_seconds(td):
    return td.days * 60 * 60 * 24 + td.seconds