Lazy session start

[dekker-m]

The current container object starts a session in the constructor automatically. This works fine for most use cases, but it could come in handy to use some kind of delayed session start. I'm working on a REST API which accepts API keys, but also check for authenticated users in their sessions. The authentication for the users are stored in sessions. However, every API call from a REST client generates a session. It will send a cookie to the REST client, while also storing the session information on disk. This should not happen with every API call by REST clients.

It would be great to have a container which does not automatically starts a session, only under the following circumstances:

• If data is written to the container, start a new session
• If trying to read data from the container, only start a session when session_status return PHP_SESSION_NONE and $_COOKIE[session_name()] is set. This will only start a session when the browser actually has send a cookie to the server.

[mael-lg]

I've the same problem on my application. Do you have any idea how to resolve this problem properly ?

[Ocramius]

Containers should not be injected, but rather requested at runtime. Session containers are NOT services.

[weierophinney]

This repository has been closed and moved to laminas/laminas-session; a new issue has been opened at laminas/laminas-session#21.