The change you proposed might be acceptable, although I'm a bit nervous about breaking backwards-compatibility in some unforeseen use case. I wonder if modifying the condition in the channel_session decorator to: if session.modified and not session.is_empty(): would solve the issue? This seems similar to what the SessionMiddleware does.
On Monday, January 23, 2017 at 2:59:59 PM UTC-5, Andrew Godwin wrote: > > Here's the Channels issue underlying it: > https://github.com/django/channels/issues/477 > > For quick reference, the @channel_session decorator is something that > wraps a consumer, loading a session on the way in and saving it on the way > out if it changed, similar to how session middleware might work. > > Andrew > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Tim Graham <timog...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I'm not sure offhand. Could you provide a link to the issue so we could >> look at the details? >> >> >> On Monday, January 23, 2017 at 1:45:48 PM UTC-5, Andrew Godwin wrote: >>> >>> An interesting bug has turned up in Channels where someone is trying to >>> remove a session using .flush(), but our decorator sees that it's been >>> modified and then re-saves it, thinking it needs to persist data. >>> >>> What are people's opinions on changing flush() to also set >>> modified=False on sessions? Is there a bad side-effect of this I haven't >>> considered? >>> >>> Andrew >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to django-d...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/2ae6fbc5-171f-4647-9604-29fc6833ee0a%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/2ae6fbc5-171f-4647-9604-29fc6833ee0a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/41a2b00e-a40a-4b45-9936-741cc58d2aed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
