AbstractBaseSession

This abstract base class provides the foundational schema and logic for managing session data in a database. It defines essential fields for session keys, encoded data, and expiration timestamps, while requiring subclasses to implement a specific session store class. The class also includes a utility method to decode session data using the associated store implementation.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
session_key	string	Unique identifier for the session used as the primary key with a maximum length of 40 characters.
session_data	string	Encoded string containing the serialized session dictionary data.
expire_date	datetime	The date and time when the session becomes invalid, indexed for efficient expiration lookups.
objects	[BaseSessionManager](basesessionmanager.md?sid=django_contrib_sessions_base_session_basesessionmanager)	The manager instance providing database query operations for session models.

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Constructor

Signature

def AbstractBaseSession(
    *args: any,
    **kwargs: any
) - > null

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
*args	any	Positional arguments passed to the parent model constructor.
**kwargs	any	Keyword arguments representing model fields such as session_key, session_data, and expire_date.

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Methods

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get_session_store_class()

@classmethod
def get_session_store_class() - > class

Returns the session store class that should be used with this session model.

Returns

Type	Description
class	The class type used for managing session storage and operations.

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get_decoded()

@classmethod
def get_decoded() - > dict

Decodes the raw session data string into a dictionary-like object.

Returns

Type	Description
dict	The decoded session data containing the stored session variables.

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