I hit a problem when get session_key from request.session
.
I am using Django1.8 and Python2.7.10 to set up a RESTful service.
Here is snippet of my login view:
user = authenticate(username=userName, password=passWord)
if user is not None:
# the password verified for the user
if user.is_active:
# app_logger.debug("User is valid, active and authenticated")
if hasattr(user, 'parent') :
login(request, user)
request.session['ut'] = 4
# user type 1 means admin, 2 for teacher, 3 for student, 4 for parents
request.session['uid'] = user.id
description = request.POST.get('description','')
request.session['realname'] = user.parent.realname
request.session['pid'] = user.parent.id
devicemanage.update_user_device(devicetoken, user.id, ostype, description)
children = parentmanage.get_children_info(user.parent.id)
session_id = request.session.session_key
user.parent.login_status = True
user.parent.save()
return JsonResponse({'retcode': 0,'notify_setting':{'receive_notify':user.parent.receive_notify,'notify_with_sound':user.parent.notify_with_sound,'notify_sound':user.parent.notify_sound,'notify_shake':user.parent.notify_shake},'pid':user.parent.id,'children':children,'name':user.parent.realname,'sessionid':session_id,'avatar':user.parent.avatar,'coins':user.parent.coins})
Now when this function is called, I see sometimes session_id
is None
within the response.
So, after debugging (I set breakpoint at the return JsonResponse(...)
line), I see that when I hit the breakpoint the request.session._session_key
is None
, but request.session.session_key
is u'j4lhxe8lvk7j4v5cmkfzytyn5235chf1'
and session_id
is also None
.
Does anyone know how can this happen? Why isn't the value of session_key
set when assigning it to session_id
before returning the response?
According to John's suggestion.
I fixed the problem by this snippet:
if not request.session.session_key:
request.session.save()
session_id = request.session.session_key