Question: what's the recommended way to set a custom store for sessions? about meddleware HOT 9 CLOSED

Ah, meddleware has already created the middleware so it won't respect that spec setting anyway. I'm not sure how to do this now.

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Ok, I made it work in the config callback.

function onconfig(config, next) {
  var sessconfig = config.get('middleware:session:arguments')[0];
  sessconfig.store = new PostgresStore(sessconfig);
  next(null, config);
}

However, this is pretty ugly. It seems to me that setting a custom Store for sessions is common enough that a case could be made to add a special setting for the store module.

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hey @timmywil the way you can override is in your app's config.json, you can override the middleware set by kraken by doing,

{
  "middleware":
  {
    "session": {
       "enabled": true,
       "priority": 100,
       "module": "<your module>",
       "arguments": [
               //<your module arguments>
            ]
     }
  }
}

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Well, I'm not trying to set a custom middleware. The "module" property for sessions had a different meaning in the previous version of kraken. I am setting the module used to create session store instances, but I'm still using express for sessions.

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gotcha! onConfig is one way to do it. The other way is adding it into config using short stop handlers and require/exec the module that you want to use. But what i am not sure will work , is the need to feed in those arguments into your PostgresStore implementation. Can you point me to the location of this file on github

var PostgresStore = require('./lib/postgres-sessions');

I can verify if shortstop handlers can be made to work.

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or you can look it up here.
https://github.com/krakenjs/shortstop
https://github.com/krakenjs/shortstop-handlers

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Hey @timmywil,

One approach would be to create a small custom middleware implementation:

// lib/middleware/postgres-session.js
var session = require('express-session');
var PostgresStore = require('./postgres-store');

module.exports = function postgres(settings, postgresConfig) {
    settings.store = new PostgresStore(postgresConfig);
    return session(settings);
};

{
  "middleware": {
    "session": {
      "enabled": true,
      "priority": 100,
      "module": "path:./lib/middleware/postgres-session",
      "arguments": [
        {
          "cookie": {
            "secret": "abc123",
            "secure": true,
            "store": null
          }
        },
        {
          /* postgres config */
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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@totherik Thanks! That's much less ugly than what I was doing.

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Glad I could help!

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