SessionStorage

Store messages in the session (that is, django.contrib.sessions).

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
session_key	string = "_messages"	The dictionary key used to store and retrieve serialized message data within the Django session object.

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Constructor

Signature

def SessionStorage(
    request: [HttpRequest](../../../../http/request/httprequest.md?sid=django_http_request_httprequest),
    *args: any,
    **kwargs: any
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
request	[HttpRequest](../../../../http/request/httprequest.md?sid=django_http_request_httprequest)	The current HTTP request object which must contain a session attribute.
*args	any	Variable length argument list.
**kwargs	any	Arbitrary keyword arguments.

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Methods

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serialize_messages()

@classmethod
def serialize_messages(
    messages: list
) - > string

Converts a list of message objects into a JSON-formatted string using a specialized encoder.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
messages	list	The list of message instances to be encoded.

Returns

Type	Description
string	A JSON string representation of the messages suitable for session storage.

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deserialize_messages()

@classmethod
def deserialize_messages(
    data: string
) - > list

Parses a JSON string from the session and reconstructs the original message objects.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
data	string	The raw session data string to be decoded into message objects.

Returns

Type	Description
list	A list of message objects decoded from the input data, or the original data if it is not a valid string.

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