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a395873 [FrameworkBundle][Session] Add auto_start pass to the storage options
Discussion
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[FrameworkBundle][Session] Add auto_start pass to the storage options
Bug fix: yes
Feature addition: no
Backwards compatibility break: no
Symfony2 tests pass: yes
Fixes the following tickets: -
Todo: -
I think that is bugfix.
In currently value of auto_start in config has no effect, at least when using the session in WebTestCase context.
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by stof at 2012-02-13T14:59:17Z
The ``auto_start`` setting is not an option passed to the session storage. It is about configuring the SessionListener. So this seems wrong
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by drak at 2012-02-13T15:02:26Z
That said, the storage does need to know if it should respect autostart - that might be quite independent of anything else. The moment something is output a session will start if `ini_set('auto_start', 1)`.
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by drak at 2012-02-13T15:05:52Z
I guess in the context of FrameworkBundle you probably want the storage driver auto_start off (php's autostart that is) so that sessions are only explicitly started by the session listener.
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by dr-fozzy at 2012-02-13T15:22:02Z
Just tested out master branch. With session.auto_start = 0 in php.ini and auto_start: false at framework -> session section of config.yml
Session is <b>started</b>(cookie's are set) anyway...
(PHP 5.3.9, simple blank page)
This bug indirectly affect Varnish caching-proxy, as it's default behaviour to not cache anything if "Cookie" or "Set-Cookie" header is set.
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by yethee at 2012-02-13T17:55:14Z
@drak, `ini_set('session.auto_start', 1)` will not work because it will be overriden [here](137b0026b7/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Session/Storage/AbstractSessionStorage.php (L222)), if the `auto_start` option is not passed in the `$options`. Or have I missed something?
I have trouble with session in functional tests (based on WebTestCase). I put some data, authentication token, into session before send request but lost them when session is [starting](7e4f4dcdf9/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/EventListener/SessionListener.php (L58))
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by stof at 2012-02-13T18:04:19Z
@drak seems like your refactored storage now need to be aware of the auto_start setting :)
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by drak at 2012-02-14T06:40:26Z
> @drak, ini_set('session.auto_start', 1) will not work because it will be overriden here, if the auto_start option is not passed in the $options. Or have I missed something?
This code simply sets a default value of off if there was no explicit setting. I believe this is correct: if not set, then set to off, otherwise, leave as defined. The issue in question is if FrameworkBundle passes the cofiguration on - it should and should have been since 2.0.
@stof The storage drivers do indeed need to be aware of the autostart settings and afaik they are already - whether FrameworkBundle passes this on to the storage driver is a different matter though.
@yethee - are you sure you are using the latest master from symfony/symfony (and not the split trees)? I ask because your second link points to something that's either in the 2.0 branch or well before the new code was merged.
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by yethee at 2012-02-14T06:56:40Z
Yep, I use latest version of master branch. [Here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/EventListener/SessionListener.php) current version of SessionListener, there is no difference of code to the previous link, now. I specifically has specified the link to the commit, and not a branch.
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by drak at 2012-02-14T06:58:48Z
Does your PR solve the problem for you? I'm going to write some tests for this also.
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by yethee at 2012-02-14T07:09:49Z
> This code simply sets a default value of off if there was no explicit setting. I believe this is correct: if not set, then set to off, otherwise, leave as defined. The issue in question is if FrameworkBundle passes the cofiguration on - it should and should have been since 2.0.
How can I pass `auto_start` option in the `setOptions` method? Now this option is not pass, and is always set the default value.
Difference between current implementation and 2.0 that in the previous version of sessions is automatically started when put any data into session. https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/2.0/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Session.php#L120
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by yethee at 2012-02-14T07:17:18Z
@drak, yes, it makes the behavior of the session as in 2.0 branch
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Session/Storage/AbstractSessionStorage.php#L186
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by drak at 2012-02-14T14:41:29Z
That means it was as I suspected, that the auto_start value in the config was not communicated to the session storage driver in `FrameworkBundle`, which your patch now fixes. @fabpot I guess this is ok for merge now.
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97cbf90 [Propel] Added tests for the PropelDataCollector
d9ce982 [Propel] Added tests for CollectionToArrayTransformer
4878af4 [Propel] Fixed CS
dd5d72a Added Propel to the vendors.php script
Discussion
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Propel tests
This PR adds more unit tests on the Propel Bridge. More to come later :)
Commits
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09b348d [HttpFoundation] Forward compatibility tweak to allows direct use of \SessionHandlerInterface
Discussion
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[HttpFoundation] Forward compatibility tweak
Bug fix: no
Feature addition: yes
Backwards compatibility break: no
Symfony2 tests pass: yes
Fixes the following tickets: -
Todo: -
Commits
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7474293 memcache profiler storage support added
Discussion
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[HttpKernel] [FrameworkBundle] Memcache(d) Profiler Storage added
Bug fix: no
Feature addition: yes
Backwards compatibility break: no
Symfony2 tests pass: yes
Fixes the following tickets: -
Todo: -
There are 2 memcache PHP extensions: Memcache and MemcacheD (with "D" at the end) - both are supported.
How to use Memcache Profiler Storage (Memcache php extension is used):
change (or add if there isn't) "dsn" in framework/profiler section in config_dev.yml
```
...
framework:
...
profiler:
...
dsn: memcache://127.0.0.1/11211
...
```
How to use Memcached Profiler Storage (MemcacheD php extension is used):
change "dsn" in framework/profiler section in config_dev.yml
```
...
framework:
...
profiler:
...
dsn: memcached://127.0.0.1/11211
...
```
Last changes:
- memcached support addedd
- optimized performance (serialization done in extension, index is created with ```append``` function)
- updated to last version of Profiler (find by method, avoid duplications)
- done squash on commits
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by stloyd at 2011-12-01T23:36:02Z
You need to add check for index name size, AFAIK memcache will fail if key is longer than 250 characters.
Also please do an `squash` for all those commits.
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by pulzarraider at 2011-12-02T00:15:28Z
@stloyd Thanks. I will add the check for key length.
I am just starting with git. Could you please add some tutorial about squash to a documentation page: http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/contributing/code/patches.html ? It will help me (and maybe some others) to do it correct way.
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by stof at 2011-12-02T00:19:01Z
http://help.github.com/rebase/
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by pulzarraider at 2011-12-03T18:56:11Z
Thanks @stof, rebase done.
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by dlsniper at 2011-12-11T14:00:17Z
Hi,
Would it be possible to either use Memcached instead of Memcache or make it configurable to use either Memcache or Memcached?
I've did a little digging on the benefits of using Memcached over Memcache (like for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1442411/using-memcache-vs-memcached-with-phphttp://devzone.zend.com/1869/zendcon-sessions-episode-040-memcached-the-better-memcache-interface/ ) and maybe this will also help in not having two extensions installed for people who are using Memcached already.
Regards.
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by pulzarraider at 2011-12-11T16:15:58Z
@dlsniper thanks for great comment. I will add memcached support.
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by stof at 2011-12-12T20:49:00Z
@pulzarraider what is the status of this PR ? Is it still a WIP ?
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by pulzarraider at 2011-12-12T22:58:48Z
@stof Yes, it's still WIP. I'm working on a memcached (with D at the end) support. It will be finished in the next few days.
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by dlsniper at 2011-12-15T12:51:52Z
@pulzarraider if I can help you with the PR let me know.
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by pulzarraider at 2012-01-08T20:22:24Z
@dlsniper @stof I've finally added memcached support and done some optimizations. Memcache(d) profiler storage is now ready.
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by dlsniper at 2012-01-08T22:12:29Z
I'm glad you finished this @pulzarraider
Thanks! for your hard work!
+1 for this PR
@stof, @fabpot is it good to go on master?
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by pulzarraider at 2012-01-28T19:45:56Z
@stof, @fabpot ping
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3dd3d58 [EventListener] Fix an issue with sub-requests
71bf279 cleanup
acdb325 [StopWatch] Provide a cleaner API
acd1287 [Stopwatch] rename the section event to avoid collisions
eb540be [Profiler] Allow profiling the terminate event
4ccdc53 [HttpKernel] Cleanup of PdoProfilerStorage
814876f [HttpKernel] Tweak the code of the ProfilerListener
Discussion
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[Profiler] Allow profiling the terminate event
![Travis](https://secure.travis-ci.org/vicb/symfony.png?branch=profiler.terminate)
This PR is mainly about allowing to profile the terminate event (i.e. see it in the timeline panel)
There are some other tweaks.
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by vicb at 2012-02-02T14:43:20Z
please don't merge for now. good question. bad answer.
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by vicb at 2012-02-06T15:05:46Z
While first commits were focused on problem solving, the last brings a clean API with the ability to re-open an existing section in order to add events (re-setting event origins and merging them were just hacks).
Should be ready to be merged.
_Edit: Sorry, couldn't resist adding a private helper class again!_
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by stof at 2012-02-06T18:30:09Z
@vicb you should stop adding such classes defined in the same file. Otherwise we will have to change the CS (and to stop telling we respect the PSR-0 standard)
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by vicb at 2012-02-06T18:33:36Z
Once again PSR-0 is about autoloading which is exactly why I do not want in such cases. CS are an other matter and yes I think they should be changed to allow this (and I am going to submit a PR right now).
The only argument I could accept is whether this class should be private or not.
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by vicb at 2012-02-06T19:57:06Z
Thanks for your valuable feedback @stof
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by fabpot at 2012-02-11T20:53:03Z
Have you tested it on a project? Because it breaks my simple examples (where I have some sub-requests).
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by vicb at 2012-02-12T09:47:23Z
my bad, should be ok now.
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6e9f886 [WebProfilerBundle] moved variable initialization from condition
Discussion
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[WebProfilerBundle] moved variable initialization from condition
Bug fix: yes
Feature addition: no
Backwards compatibility break: no
Symfony2 tests pass: yes
Fixes the following tickets: -
Todo: -
I got fatal error for the original condition on PHP 5.3.8:
Fatal error: Call to a member function getFlashBag() on a non-object in /home/context/httpd/vendor/symfony/src/Symfony/Bundle/WebProfilerBundle/Controller/ProfilerController.php on line 150
Commits
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2c767d1 [HttpFoundation] Fixed closeSession for the Memcached storage
ec44e68 [HttpFoundation] Fixed the use of the prefix for the Memcached storage
5808773 [HttpFoundation] Fixed a typo and updated the phpdoc for the session
0550bef Removed methods duplicated from parent class
Discussion
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Session cleanup
This cleans the phpdoc of the refactored session by using inheritdoc in all appropriate places. For the SessionInterface, I added the ``@api`` tag in all methods as the Session class had them.
It also fixes a few typos in the variable names.
I figured a few things:
- the Session class implements some methods that are not part of the SessionInterface. Is it intended or simply a left-over ?
- the MemcachedSessionStorage uses a ``prefix`` property which does not exist. This is clearly a copy-paste from the MemcacheSessionStorage which has it. It also call the ``Memcached#close`` method which does not exist according to PhpStorm. @drak could you check this class ? I don't know Memcached at all.
- as I said on the refactoring PR, the Serializable implementation of the Session class seems totally wrong as the SessionStorage is not serializable.
/cc @drak
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by drak at 2012-02-12T02:09:38Z
@stof there is a ticket about this, the problem exists from Symfony 2.0 also - refs #3000 PDOSessionStorage
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by drak at 2012-02-12T02:10:12Z
@stof I will look at the memcache issue and make a quick PR
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by stof at 2012-02-12T02:11:07Z
@drak the issue could exist with any SessionStorage as your SessionStorageInterface does not enforce making it serializable
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by stof at 2012-02-12T02:14:15Z
@drak note that this PR already fixes 2 typo in the memcached storage. It seems like some tests are missing for it as they should have been found (they would have raised a notice in the constructor)
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by drak at 2012-02-12T02:14:50Z
Afaik, only PDO is not serializable@ but the `Serializable` is on the SessionInterface. The problem is with #3000, the serialization is necessary but impossible.
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by stof at 2012-02-12T02:21:42Z
@drak what about a Mongo storage or things like that ?
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by drak at 2012-02-12T02:23:58Z
@stof Since you've started this PR would you mind removing `$prefix.` from the `*session()` methods in `MemcachedSessionStorage` - they are not required because Memcached handles prefixes itself. I'll write some tests in another PR for them. I guess I omitted it because at the time I didn't have them on my test env.
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by drak at 2012-02-12T02:24:35Z
@stof - Let's take the serialization issue to #3000 because it's being discussed there.
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by stof at 2012-02-12T02:27:27Z
@drak what about the ``close()`` method which does not exist in the Memcached class ?
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by drak at 2012-02-12T03:58:11Z
The method just needs to `return true;`.
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cde34fd [Form] Throwing an AlreadyBoundException in `add`, `remove`, `setParent`, `bind` and `setData` if called on a bound form
Discussion
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[Form] Throwing an AlreadyBoundException in `add`, `remove`, `setParent`, `bind` and `setData` if called on a bound form
Bug fix: yes
Feature addition: no
Backwards compatibility break: **yes**
Symfony2 tests pass: yes
Fixes the following tickets: -
Todo: -
![Travis Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/bschussek/symfony.png?branch=issue3022)
The above mentioned methods now throw an exception because when invoked on a bound form they might cause strange side effects. You should rely on event listeners instead of modifying bound forms.
See also #3022
Commits
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88b826d [Propel] Fixed typo, removed useless use statement, used getData() instead of casting a PropelCollection
46d28cd [Propel] Fixed the CollectionToArray transformer
1f20fb1 [Propel] Removed useless code
3910735 [Propel] Avoid to duplicate objects
d69144c [Propel] Refactored the CollectionToArray transformer
1706671 [Propel] Fixed naming to reflect Doctrine bridge
1f277df [Propel] Removed useless ModelToIdTransformer
Discussion
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Cleaned the propel bridge (+ fixes)
I've fixed the `ModelChoiceList` with `multiple=true`, and I removed useless code.
This PR will ensure everything works fine, but it requires the following fix for Propel: https://github.com/propelorm/Propel/pull/286.
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by willdurand at 2012-02-11T20:04:10Z
@cedriclombardot this PR will fix your issues with Sf2 + Propel in your admingen
@bschussek nevermind my comments on Twitter, it seems ok now
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cb6fdb1 [HttpFoundation] removed Session::close()
c59d880 Docblocks.
b8df162 Correct instanceof condition.
8a01dd5 renamed getFlashes() to getFlashBag() to avoid clashes
282d3ae updated CHANGELOG for 2.1
0f6c50a [HttpFoundation] added some method for a better BC
146a502 [FrameworkBundle] added some service aliases to avoid some BC breaks
93d81a1 [HttpFoundation] removed configuration for session storages in session.xml as we cannot provide a way to configure them (like before this PR anyway)
74ccf70 reverted 5b7ef11650 (Simplify session storage class names now we have a separate namespace for sessions)
91f4f8a [HttpFoundation] changed default flash bag to auto-expires to keep BC
0494250 removed unused use statements
7878a0a [HttpFoundation] renamed pop() to all() and getAll() to all()
0d2745f [HttpFoundation] Remove constants from FlashBagInterface
dad60ef [HttpFoundation] Add back get defaults and small clean-up.
5b7ef11 [HttpFoundation] Simplify session storage class names now we have a separate namespace for sessions.
27530cb [HttpFoundation] Moved session related classes to own sub-namespace.
4683915 [HttpFoundation] Free bags from session storage and move classes to their own namespaces.
d64939a [DoctrineBridge] Refactored driver for changed interface.
f9951a3 Fixed formatting.
398acc9 [HttpFoundation] Reworked flashes to maintain same behaviour as in Symfony 2.0
f98f9ae [HttpFoundation] Refactor for DRY code.
9dd4dbe Documentation, changelogs and coding standards.
1ed6ee3 [DoctribeBridge][SecurityBundle][WebProfiler] Refactor code for HttpFoundation changes.
7aaf024 [FrameworkBundle] Refactored code for changes to HttpFoundation component.
669bc96 [HttpFoundation] Added pure Memcache, Memcached and Null storage drivers.
e185c8d [HttpFoundation] Refactored component for session workflow.
85b5c43 [HttpFoundation] Added drivers for PHP native session save handlers, files, sqlite, memcache and memcached.
57ef984 [HttpFoundation] Added unit and functional testing session storage objects.
3a263dc [HttpFoundation] Introduced session storage base class and interfaces.
c969423 [HttpFoundation] Added FlashBagInterface and concrete implementation.
39288bc [HttpFoundation] Added AttributesInterface and AttributesBagInterface and concrete implementations.
Discussion
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[2.1][HttpFoundation] Refactor session handling and flash messages
Bug fix: yes
Feature addition: yes
Backwards compatibility break: yes
Symfony2 tests pass: yes
Fixes the following tickets: #2607, #2591, #2717, #2773
References the following tickets: #2592, #2543, #2541, #2510, #2714, #2684
Todo: -
__Introduction__
This extensive PR is a refactor with minimal BC breaks of the `[HttpFoundation]` component's session management which fixes several issues in the current implementation. This PR includes all necessary changes to other bundles and components is documented in the `CHANGELOG-2.1` and `UPGRADING-2.1`.
__Summary of Changes__
__Session:__
- Session object now implements `SessionInterface`
__Attributes:__
- Attributes now handled by `AttributeBagInterface`
- Added two AttributeBag implementations: `AttributeBag` replicates the current Symfony2 attributes behaviour, and the second, `NamespacedAttributeBag` introduces structured namespaced representation using '/' in the key. Both are BC. `FrameworkBundle` defaults to the old behaviour.
__Flash messages:__
- Flash messages now handled by `FlashBagInterface`
- Introduced `FlashBag` which changes the way flash messages expire, they now expire on use rather than automatically, useful for ESI.
- Introduced `AutoExpireFlashBag` (default) which replicates the old automatic expiry behaviour of flash messages.
__Session Storage:__
- Introduced a base object, `AbstractSessionStorage` for session storage drivers
- Introduced a `SessionSaveHandlerInterface` when using custom session save handlers
- Introduced a `NullSessionStorage` driver which allows for unsaved sessions
- Introduced new session storage drivers for Memcache and Memcached
- Introduced new session storage drivers for PHP's native SQLite, Memcache and Memcached support
__General:__
- Fixed bugs where session attributes are not saved and all cases where flash messages would get lost
- Wrote new tests, refactored related existing tests and increased test coverage extensively.
__Rationale/Details__
I'll explain more detail in the following sections.
__Unit Tests__
All unit and functional tests pass.
__Note on Functional Testing__
I've introduced `MockFileSessionStorage` which replaces `FilesystemSessionStorage` to emulate a PHP session for functional testing. Essentially the same methodology of functional testing has been maintained but without interrupting the other session storage drivers interaction with real PHP sessions. The service is now called `session.storage.mock_file`.
__Session Workflow__
PHP sessions follow a specific workflow which is not being followed by the current session management implementation and is responsible for some unpredictable bugs and behaviours.
Basically, PHP session workflow is as follows: `open`, `read`, `write`, `close`. In between these can occur, `destroy` and `garbage collection`. These actions are handled by `session save handlers` and one is always registered in all cases. By default, the `files` save handler (internally to PHP) is registered by PHP at the start of code execution.
PHP offers the possibility to change the save handler to another internal type, for example one provided by a PHP extension (think SQLite, Memcache etc), or you can register a user type and set your own handlers. However __in all cases__ PHP requires the handlers.
The handlers are called when the following things occur:
- `open` and `read` when `session_start()` or the session autostarts when PHP outputs some display
- `destroy` when `session_regenerate_id(true)` is called
- `write` and `close` when PHP shuts down or when `session_write_close()` is called
- `garbage collection` is called randomly according to configurable probability
The next very important aspect of this PR is that `$_SESSION` plays an important part in this workflow because the contents of the $_SESSION is populated __after__ the `read` handler returns the previously saved serialised session data. The `write` handler is sent the serialised `$_SESSION` contents for save. Please note the serialisation is a different format to `serialize()`.
For this reason, any session implementation cannot get rid of using `$_SESSION`.
I wrote more details on this issue [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/2607#issuecomment-2858300)
In order to make writing session storage drivers simple, I created a light base class `AbstractSessionStorage` and the `SessionSaveHandlerInterface` which allows you to quickly write native and custom save handler drivers.
__Flash Messages [BC BREAK]__
Flash messages currently allow representation of a single message per `$name`. Fabien designed the original system so that `$name` was equivalent to flash message type. The current PR changes the fact that Flash messages expire explicitly when retrieved for display to the user as opposed to immediately on the next page load.
The last issue fixes potential cases when flash messages are lost due to an unexpected intervening page-load (an error for example). The API `get()` has a flag which allows you to override the `clear()` action.
__Flash message translation__
This PR does not cover translation of flash messages because messages should be translated before calling the flash message API. This is because flash messages are used to present messages to the user after a specific action, and in any case, immediately on the next page load. Since we know the locale of the request in every case we can translate the message before storing. Secondly, translation is simply a string manipulation. Translation API calls should always have the raw untranslated string present because it allows for extraction of translation catalogs. For a complete answer see my answer [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/2543#issuecomment-2858707)
__Session attribute and structured namespacing__
__This has been implemented without changing the current default behaviour__ but details are below for the alternative:
Attributes are currently stored in a flat array which limits the potential of session attributes:
Here are some examples to see why this 'structured namespace' methodology is extremely convenient over using a flat system. Let's look at an example with csrf tokens. Let's say we have multiple csrftokens stored by form ID (allowing multiple forms on the page and tabbed browsing).
If we're using a flat system, you might have
'tokens' => array('a' => 'a6c1e0b6',
'b' => 'f4a7b1f3')
With a flat system when you get the key `tokens`, you will get back an array, so now you have to analyse the array. So if you simply want to add another token, you have to follow three steps: get the session attribute `tokens`, have to add to the array, and lastly set the entire array back to the session.
$tokens = $session->get('tokens');
$tokens['c'] = $value;
$session->set('tokens', $tokens);
Doable, but you can see it's pretty long winded.
With structured namespacing you can simply do:
$session->set('c', $value, '/tokens');
There are several ways to implement this, either with an additional `$namespace` argument, or by treating a character in the `$key` as a namespacer. `NamespacedAttributeBag` treats `/` as a namespacer so you can represent `user.tokens/a` for example. The namespace character is configurable in `NamespacedAttributeBag`.
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by marijn at 2011-12-18T15:43:17Z
I haven't read the code yet but the description from this PR and your line of thought seem very well structured.
Seems like a big +1 for me.
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by lsmith77 at 2011-12-19T16:01:19Z
@deviantintegral could you look over this to see if it really addresses everything you wanted with PR #2510 ?
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by deviantintegral at 2011-12-24T20:12:03Z
I've read through the documentation and upgrade notes, and I can't see anything that's obviously missing from #2510. Being able to support multiple flashes per type is the most important, and the API looks reasonable to me. Drupal does support supressing repeat messages, but that can easily be implemented in our code unless there's a compelling case for it to be a part of Symfony.
I wonder if PHP memcache support is required in Symfony given the availability of memcached. I'm not familiar with how other parts of Symfony handle it, but there is often quite a bit of confusion between the two PHP extensions. It could be simpler to remove one, or add a bit of info describing or linking to why there are two nearly identical classes.
Is it possible to make one class inherit from the other (memcached is a child of memcache)?
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by Fristi at 2011-12-24T20:29:46Z
Interesting, maybe add: session events as I did with the current impl: https://github.com/Fristi/SessionBundle
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by drak at 2011-12-25T00:50:03Z
@deviantintegral - I agree about the confusion between memcache and memcached but actually, it is necessary to support both because `memcached` is not available everywhere. For example on Debian Lenny and RHEL/CentOS 5, only memcache is available by default. This would preclude a massive amount of shared hosting environments. Also, it is not possible to inherit one from the other, they are completely different drivers.
@Fristi - I also thought about the events, but they do not belong as part of the standalone component as this would create a coupling to the event dispatcher. The way you have done it, ie, in a bundle is the right way to achieve it.
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by matheo at 2011-12-25T01:12:00Z
Impressive work, looks like a big improvement and deserves a big +1
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by datiecher at 2011-12-26T11:57:12Z
Took some time to grok all the changes in this PR but all in all it is a keeper. Specially the new flash message API, it's really nicer to work with it then the previous one.
Nicely done @drak!
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by lsmith77 at 2012-01-02T15:00:00Z
@fabpot did you have time to review this yet? with all the work @drak has done its important that he gets some feedback soon. its clear this PR breaks BC in ways we never wanted to allow. but i think this PR also clearly explains why its necessary none the less.
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by drak at 2012-01-02T15:41:53Z
@fabpot - I have removed the WIP status from this PR now and rebased against the current master branch.
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by Tobion at 2012-01-07T07:13:38Z
From what I read from the IRC chat logs, the main concern of @fabpot is whether we really need multiple flash messages per type. I'm in favor of this PR and just want to add one point to this discussion.
At the moment you can add multiple flash messages of different type/category/identifier. For example you can specify one error message and one info message after an operation. I think most agree that this can be usefull.
But then it makes semantically no sense that you currently cannot add 2 info messages. This approach feels a bit half-done.
So I think this PR eliminates this paradox.
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by drak at 2012-01-07T09:11:07Z
For reference there is also a discussion started by @lsmith77 on the mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/symfony-devs/cy4wokD0mQI
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by dlsniper at 2012-01-07T16:02:15Z
@drak I could also add the next scenario that I currently have to live with, in addition to @lsmith77 ones.
I had this issue while working on our shopping cart implementation for a customer where the customer wanted to show the unavailability of the items as different lines in the 'flash-error' section of the cart. We had to set an array as the 'flash message' in order to display that information.
So in this case for example having the flash messages types as array would actually make more sense that sending an array to the flasher. Plus the the other issue we had was that we also wanted to add another error in the message but we had to do a check to see if the flash message is an array already or we need to make it an array.
I think it's better not to impose a limit of this sort and let the users be able to handle every scenario, even if some are rare, rather that forcing users to overcome limitations such as these.
I really hope this PR gets approved faster and thanks everyone for their hard work :)
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by Tobion at 2012-01-07T21:01:07Z
@dlsniper I think you misinterpreted my point.
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by dlsniper at 2012-01-07T21:04:04Z
@Tobion I'm sorry I did that, I'll edit the message asap. Seems no sleep in 26 hours can cause brain not to function as intended :)
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by lsmith77 at 2012-02-01T14:38:52Z
FYI the drupal guys are liking this PR (including the flash changes):
http://drupal.org/node/335411
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by drak at 2012-02-01T14:51:33Z
@lsmith77 Fabien asked me to remove the changes to the flash messages so that they are as before - i.e. only one flash per name/type /cc @fabpot
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by fabpot at 2012-02-01T14:58:23Z
To be clear, I've asked to split this PR in two parts:
* one about the session refactoring (which is non-controversial and should be merged ASAP)
* this one with only the flash refactoring
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by drak at 2012-02-02T11:29:26Z
@fabpot this is ready to be merged now. I will open a separate PR later today for the flash messages as a bucket.
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by fabpot at 2012-02-02T11:34:39Z
I must have missed something, but I still see a lot of changes related to the flash messages.
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by drak at 2012-02-02T11:39:10Z
When I spoke to you you said you wanted to make the commit with flash messages with one message per name/type rather than multiple. The old flash messages behaviour is 100% maintained in `AutoExpireFlashBag` which can be the default in the framework if you wish. The `FlashBag` implementation makes Symfony2 ESI compatible.
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by stof at 2012-02-02T11:47:38Z
@drak splitting into 2 PRs means you should not refactor the flash messages in this one but in the dedicated one.
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by drak at 2012-02-02T12:29:43Z
@stof Yes. I discussed with Fabien over chat there are basically no changes
to flashes in `FlashBag` and `AutoExpireFlashBag` maintains the exact
behaviour as before. The FlashBag just introduces ESI compatible flashes.
There is no way to refactor the sessions without moving the flash messages
to their own bag. The next PR will propose the changes to flashes that
allow multiple messages per name/type. I can size the PR down a little
more removing the new storage drivers and so on to make the PR smaller but
that's really as far as I can go. To be clear, while the API has changed a
little for flashes, the behaviour is the same.