connect-mongodb-simple

Copyright(c) 2013 BeauCoo Author: Rick Cotter

Reasoning:

• Few dependencies equals easy to keep up to date.
• Lets what could be dependencies do what they do best i.e. node-mongodb-native - connectivity and write level concerns.
• Upgraded to work with Connect 2.x yet decoupled from it (a la connect-redis)
• Ability to annotate sessions for orthogonal concerns

Attribution:

• Initial implementation inspired by connect-mongodb, especially by its lack of maintenance.
• Updates by nathanbower (from connect-mongodb uncommitted pull request #60)
• Heavy referencing of connect-redis

Installation

Via npm install connect-mongodb-simple

Use

Where:

• openDB is an open node-mongodb-native database connection. Write mode (safe, w:, etc) is controlled here. Recommended use is the new MongoClient
• options (optional):
  • ttl (optional) is the time-to-live for sessions. If omitted, the cookie's maxAge will be used.
  • collectionName to override default 'sessions' MongoDB collection name.
  • reapIntervalMs ms to remove expired sessions. Omit or specify as less than 500 to turn-off.
  • logReaping (optional) true/false determines whether each reap is logged to console.
• modifyFunc (optional) is a function:
  • Receives a session hash
  • Can modify it and must return null
  • Or returns a hash that will be merged with the root session document as json. Useful for including extra-info that will queried for orthogonal means.
• callback (optional) to know when the async instance construction has completed.

modifyFunc Example 1:

function(session) {
  delete session.SOME_KEY;
  return null;
}

// Resulting in a session document:

{
  _id:[ID],
  session:"{...}", // without SOME_KEY
  expires:[DATE]
}

modifyFunc Example 2:

function(session) {
  return {k:session.SOME_KEY};
}

// Resulting in a session document:

{
  _id:[ID],
  session:"{...}",
  expires:[DATE],
  k:[VALUE OF SOME_KEY]
}

Alternative Session Reaping Configuration

Instead of having connect-mongodb-simple reap expired sessions use new features in MongoDB where the index created could be:

Tests

• Run npm test
• or run mocha test --require should --reporter spec --recursive --grep "unit tests"
• or run mocha test --require should --reporter spec --recursive to run unit and functional tests (requires running a mongod instance at localhost:27017 with a 'test' database)
• or run continuously via mocha watch --require should --reporter spec --recursive"

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