Redis or Memcache backend key not found, request.session will be None

[chenlujia888]

When redis or memcache clear the key/value data, session_backend.get() will return None. as the request.session will be None. None object cannot call update().
This bug happens when the redis server migrate to the new server with no data, but client brower send the original session key, then exception rasied.
Looking into the code, on init.py line 80-96:
`

    connection = HTTPConnection(scope)
    initial_session_was_empty = True

    if self.cookie_name in connection.cookies:
        data = connection.cookies[self.cookie_name].encode("utf-8")
        try:
            data = self.signer.unsign(data, max_age=self.max_age)
            if self.backend_type == BackendType.cookie or not self.session_backend:
                scope["session"] = json.loads(b64decode(data))
            else:
                session_key = json.loads(b64decode(data)).get(
                    self._cookie_session_id_field
                )
                scope["session"] = await self.session_backend.get(session_key)
                scope["__session_key"] = session_key

######### SHOULD ADD THE CODE HERE

               if scope["session“] == None:
                       scope["session"] = {}

################################

            initial_session_was_empty = False

`

[gmmeyer]

I've hit this too, it's quite serious it essentially makes the library unusable

[yfa-vagelis]

@auredentan Is this project still being maintained? @gmmeyer's pull request looks good, but it's been open for quite a while.

[Redevil10]

I had the same error when I started using it with redis backend, I thought there was a bug.
But then I realised it is probably because I didn't use the correct way to update and read the session.

It works if you try to set the session by following the document:

request.session.update({"some_key": "some_value"})

and access the value by:

value = request.session.get("some_key")

Initially, I was doing it the wrong way, treat it as a dict:

request.session["some_key"] = "some_value"
value = request.session["some_key"]