memstore

In-memory implementation of gorilla/sessions for use in tests and dev environments

How to install

go get github.com/quasoft/memstore

Documentation

Documentation, as usual, can be found at godoc.org.

The interface of gorilla/sessions is described at http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions.

How to use

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/quasoft/memstore"
)

func main() {
    // Create a memory store, providing authentication and
    // encryption key for securecookie
    store := memstore.NewMemStore(
        []byte("authkey123"),
        []byte("enckey12341234567890123456789012"),
    )

    http.HandleFunc("/hello", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        // Get session by name.
        session, err := store.Get(r, "session1")
        if err != nil {
            log.Printf("Error retrieving session: %v", err)
        }

        // The name should be 'foobar' if home page was visited before that and 'Guest' otherwise.
        user, ok := session.Values["username"]
        if !ok {
            user = "Guest"
        }
        fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello %s", user)
    })

    http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        // Get session by name.
        session, err := store.Get(r, "session1")
        if err != nil {
            log.Printf("Error retrieving session: %v", err)
        }

        // Add values to the session object
        session.Values["username"] = "foobar"
        session.Values["email"] = "spam@eggs.com"

        // Save values
        err = session.Save(r, w)
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatalf("Error saving session: %v", err)
        }
    })

    log.Printf("listening on http://%s/", "127.0.0.1:9090")
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe("127.0.0.1:9090", nil))
}