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Sessions

Create a main.go file and copy-paste the following code snippets:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
"github.com/kataras/iris/v12"
"github.com/kataras/iris/v12/mvc"
"github.com/kataras/iris/v12/sessions"
)
func main() {
app := iris.New()
// Configure sessions manager as we used to.
sess := sessions.New(sessions.Config{Cookie: "mysession_cookie_name"})
app.Use(sess.Handler())
visitApp := mvc.New(app)
visitApp.Register(time.Now())
visitApp.Handle(new(VisitController))
app.Listen(":8080")
}

Controller

  • The VisitController.Session is automatically binded to the current sessions.Session.
  • The VisitController.StartTime is statically set to the server's start time with .Register(time.Now()) above.
type VisitController struct {
Session *sessions.Session
StartTime time.Time
}
func (c *VisitController) Get() string {
// it increments a "visits" value of integer by one,
// if the entry with key 'visits' doesn't exist
// it will create it for you.
visits := c.Session.Increment("visits", 1)
// write the current, updated visits.
since := time.Now().Sub(c.StartTime).Seconds()
return fmt.Sprintf("%d visit(s) from my current session in %0.1f seconds of server's up-time",
visits, since)
}

Run

Open a terminal session and execute:
$ go run main.go
  1. 1.
    Prepare a client, e.g. your browser
  2. 2.
    navigate to http://localhost:8080
  3. 3.
    refresh the page some times
  4. 4.
    close the browser
  5. 5.
    re-open the browser (if it wasn't in private mode) and re-play 2.