Session

Session middleware facilitates HTTP session management backed by gorilla sessions. The default implementation provides cookie and filesystem based session store; however, you can take advantage of community maintained implementation for various backends.

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Echo community contribution

Dependencies

import (
  "github.com/gorilla/sessions"
  "github.com/labstack/echo-contrib/session"
)

Usage

e := echo.New()
e.Use(session.Middleware(sessions.NewCookieStore([]byte("secret"))))
e.GET("/", func(c echo.Context) error {
  sess, _ := session.Get("session", c)
  sess.Options = &sessions.Options{
    Path:     "/",
    MaxAge:   86400 * 7,
    HttpOnly: true,
  }
  sess.Values["foo"] = "bar"
  sess.Save(c.Request(), c.Response())
  return c.NoContent(http.StatusOK)
})

Custom Configuration

Usage

e := echo.New()
e.Use(session.MiddlewareWithConfig(session.Config{}))

Configuration

Config struct {
  // Skipper defines a function to skip middleware.
  Skipper middleware.Skipper
  // Session store.
  // Required.
  Store sessions.Store
}

Default Configuration

DefaultConfig = Config{
  Skipper: DefaultSkipper,
}