Bottle.py session with Beaker

Question

first time questioner here.

I\'m currently struggling on how to use Beaker properly using the Bottle micro-framework. Here\'s the problematic program:

Answer 1

Using beaker in your bottle application is easy. First, set up your Bottle app:

import bottle
from bottle import request, route, hook
import beaker.middleware

session_opts = {
    'session.type': 'file',
    'session.data_dir': './session/',
    'session.auto': True,
}

app = beaker.middleware.SessionMiddleware(bottle.app(), session_opts)

And later on:

bottle.run(app=app)

With this in place, every time you receive a request, your Beaker session will be available as request.environ['beaker_session']. I usually do something like this for convenience:

@hook('before_request')
def setup_request():
    request.session = request.environ['beaker.session']

This arranges to run setup_request before handling any request; we're using the bottle.request variable (see the earlier import statement), which is a thread-local variable with information about the current request. From this point on, I can just refer to request.session whenever I need it, e.g.:

@route('/')
def index():
    if 'something' in request.session:
       return 'It worked!'

    request.session['something'] = 1