django-dysession 1.1.1
"django-dysession is a django extension which integrated AWS DynamoDB as a session backend"
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.8
Keywords: "django,session,aws,dynamodb"

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<p>django-dysession is a django extension by using AWS DynamoDB as a session backend</p>
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## What is a django-dysession?

Django-dysession is a simple and easy-to-use app which allow Django developers to take DyanmoDB as Session Backend Database.

DynamoDB is Fast, flexible NoSQL database service for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.

Using DynamoDB for session storage alleviates issues that occur with session handling in a distributed web application by moving sessions off of the local file system and into a shared location. [[1]]

+ Easy to use! All you need is add **2 lines** of Code!
+ Support **TTL(Time to Live) attribute**
  Django's default session won't delete expired session data.
  By using DynamoDB, we can take advantage of DynamoDB's ttl attrubute to auto delete expired session data.
+ No more effort to maintain and autoscale your session database ( Taking advantage of AWS serverless service! )
+ Provide beautiful, clearful and colorful error log


## Requirements
**django-dysession** use [boto3](https://aws.amazon.com/tw/sdk-for-python/) to interact with AWS DynamoDB.
Boto3 is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python, which allows Python developers to write software that makes use of services like **DynamoDB**.

+ Django >= 3.2
+ boto3 >= 1.26.59

## Installation

Install from PyPI ( or manually download from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/django-dysession/#files) ):
```bash
pip install -U django-dysession
```

## Getting Started
First of all, add `dysession` into `INSTALLED_APPS` in settings.py.
Change `SESSION_ENGINE` to `dysession.backends.db` in order use our SessionStore.
```python
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "dysession", # add dysession to installed apps
    # 'django.contrib.sessions', # remove this default session
    ...
]

SESSION_ENGINE = "dysession.backends.db"
```

Second, we need to create a DynamoDB to store session data which's name is `sessions` as default.
Run the commands bellow in cmd.
```bash
python manage.py dysession_init
```

Then, we can enjoy it now!
```python
from django.http import HttpResponse

def mainpage(request):
    request.session["is_admin"] = True
    request.session["bottle_of_milks"] = 20
    request.session["planet_have_been_to"] = ["Earth", "Jupiter", "Saturn"]

    return HttpResponse("Ayyy")
```

Enjoy!

![](asset/dynamodb-real-demo-image.png)


## Django Commands

django-dysession offer two commands for developers:
+ dysession_destory: Destory DynamoDB Table ( Will delete whole data of the table )
+ dysession_init: Create DyanmoDB Table

```bash
python manage.py --help

Type 'manage.py help <subcommand>' for help on a specific subcommand.

Available subcommands:

[dysession]
    dysession_destory
    dysession_init
```

## Settings

This section outlines all the settings and configurations that you can put in Django's settings.py to adjust `dysession`'s behavior.

You can overwrite any value in `DYSESSION` or just ignore it to use the default value!
```python
DYSESSION = {
    "DYNAMODB_TABLENAME": "sessions",
    "PARTITION_KEY_NAME": "PK",
    "SORT_KEY_NAME": "SK",
    "TTL_ATTRIBUTE_NAME": "ttl",
    "CACHE_PERIOD": 3600,
    "DYNAMODB_REGION": "ap-northeast-1",
    "LOGGING": {
        "TYPE": "CONSOLE",
    },
}
```

| Argument             | Default        | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
|----------------------|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| DYNAMODB_TABLENAME   | sessions       | DynamoDB table name                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| PARTITION_KEY_NAME   | PK             | Partition key name                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| TTL_ATTRIBUTE_NAME   | ttl            | Time to live attribute name                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| CACHE_PERIOD         | 3600           | Define how long should be the cache live in DynamoDB's table                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| DYNAMODB_REGION      | ap-northeast-1 | The region of the DynamoDB table                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| LOGGING              | Dict           | Configuration of Logging                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| LOGGING["TYPE"]      | CONSOLE        | Only accept two kinds of parameters: `CONSOLE`, `FILE`. If this set to `CONSOLE`, django-dysession will use `StreamHandler` to stream to the console. If this set to `FILE`, django-dysession will use `FileHandler` to stream to `LOGGING["FILE_PATH"]`. |
| LOGGING["FILE_PATH"] | session.log    | Optional. Only use this configuration when LOGGING["TYPE"] is set to `FILE`. The file path to save logs of session managements.                                                                                                                           |


## Logging

Django-Dysession support three kinds of logging.

1. Colorful TTY-based Console Log

   Support colorful and beautiful log when django-dysession interacting with AWS Dysession.
   ![](/asset/dysession-beautiful-error-log-example.png)
2. Default logging stream

   Django-Dysession use python core library `logging.StreamHandler`
3. Default File Stream

   Django-Dysession use python core library `logging.FileHandler`