net.sourceforge.statelessfilter.backend

Interface ISessionBackend

All Superinterfaces:

IPlugin

All Known Implementing Classes:

AESCookieBackend, CookieBackendSupport, JSONAESCookieBackend, MemcacheBackend, PlainCookieBackend, SessionBackend

public interface ISessionBackend
extends IPlugin

Interface for a session backend. All session backends must implement this interface.

Author:

Nicolas Richeton - Capgemini

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface net.sourceforge.statelessfilter.filter.IPlugin

TYPE_BACKEND, TYPE_REQUEST_PROCESSOR

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ISessionData	restore(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Restores a session from the backend.
void	save(ISessionData session, List<String> dirtyAttributes, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Saves a session to the backend.

Methods inherited from interface net.sourceforge.statelessfilter.filter.IPlugin

destroy, getId, init, isBufferingRequired

Method Detail

restore

ISessionData restore(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Restores a session from the backend.

Parameters:

request -

Returns:

session data or null if session does not exists or restoration failed.

save

void save(ISessionData session,
        List<String> dirtyAttributes,
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)
          throws IOException

Saves a session to the backend.

Parameters:

session - Current session.

dirtyAttributes - list of attributes that were added/changed/removed during the current request.

request - Current request.

response - Current response.

Throws:

IOException