plug_session_mnesia

An application for storing and managing Plug sessions with Mnesia.

This application provides a Plug.Session.Store using Mnesia as back-end, and a session cleaner for automatically deleting inactive sessions. It also provide helpers for creating the Mnesia table.

Using Mnesia enables session persistence between application reboots and distribution. However, distribution is not yet supported out of the box by the table creation helpers. You must create the Mnesia table yourself to use this feature.

Setup

To use it in your app, add this to your dependencies:

{:plug_session_mnesia, "~> 0.1.3"}

Then, add to your configuration:

config :plug_session_mnesia,
  table: :session,
  max_age: 86_400

It will store the sessions in a Mnesia table named session and discard them if they are inactive for more than 1 day. You can also choose to discard sessions after a given amount of time, regardless they have been active or not. To do this, simply add timestamp: :fixed to the configuration.

By default, PlugSessionMnesia.Cleaner checks every minute for outdated sessions. You can change this behaviour by setting the :cleaner_timeout key in the configuration with a value in seconds.

You must also tell Plug.Session that you use this store:

plug Plug.Session,
  key: "_app_key",
  store: PlugSessionMnesia.Store

You can then create the Mnesia table:

$ mix session.setup

If you want to use a node name or a custom directory for the Mnesia database, you can take a look at Mix.Tasks.Session.Setup.

You can also create it directly from Elixir using PlugSessionMnesia.Helpers.setup!/0. This can be useful to include in a setup task to be run in a release environment.

Contributing

Before contributing to this project, please read the CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Copyright © 2017-2019 Jean-Philippe Cugnet and contributors

This project is licensed under the MIT license.