Write to session store -- and persist it?

[aroman]

Hey,

Great little library you've got here.

I use it in conjunction with a MongoStore, which also powers my Express HTTP sessions. Only thing is, when I (from inside a socket.io callback) modify the session exposed by this library, it only seems to persist in memory; when I restart the server, the changes are not reflected (and thus weren't saved in MongoDB).

Am I wrong in expecting the changes to be perserved in MongoDB? Or is the session only exposed as read-only through socket.io.

[wcamarao]

Hey Avi, thanks for the feedback.

I'm not sure how to answer this directly but I will give you some information to go through and find the answer. When you do session.someValue = 1, it may look like it's not persisting anything as it's just changing an attribute in memory.

However someValue could be a setter (see links below) that also trigger a callback that persist into MongoDB. If not implemented yet, you could use this or a similar approach to keep your db synced.

Before implementing I'd also suggest asking this on MongoStore repo as they might have a configuration that do this job already.

http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-getters-and-setters
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/ECMA-5-Mozilla-Features-Implemented-in-V8

[wcamarao]

hey @aroman have you solved this? if not take a look at issue 8 - it might help.