Documentation: https://auredentan.github.io/starlette-session/

Starlette Session

Starlette session is a simple session middleware for starlette that enable server side session with starlette.

Requirements

Python 3.6+

Installation

pip install starlette-session

Example

Using redis as backend

from starlette.applications import Starlette
from starlette.requests import Request
from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
from starlette.routing import Route

from starlette_session import SessionMiddleware
from starlette_session.backends import BackendType

from redis import Redis

async def setup_session(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
    request.session.update({"data": "session_data"})
    return JSONResponse({"session": request.session})


async def clear_session(request: Request):
    request.session.clear()
    return JSONResponse({"session": request.session})


def view_session(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
    return JSONResponse({"session": request.session})


routes = [
    Route("/setup_session", endpoint=setup_session),
    Route("/clear_session", endpoint=clear_session),
    Route("/view_session", endpoint=view_session),
]

redis_client = Redis(host="localhost", port=6379)
app = Starlette(debug=True, routes=routes)
app.add_middleware(
    SessionMiddleware,
    secret_key="secret",
    cookie_name="cookie22",
    backend_type=BackendType.redis,
    backend_client=redis_client,
)

You can find more example here

Using a custom backend

You can provide a custom backend to be used. This backend has simply to implement the interface ISessionBackend

class ISessionBackend(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    async def get(self, key: str) -> Optional[dict]:
        raise NotImplementedError()

    @abstractmethod
    async def set(self, key: str, value: dict, exp_in_mins: str) -> Optional[str]:
        raise NotImplementedError()

    @abstractmethod
    async def delete(key: str) -> Any:
        raise NotImplementedError()