With the advent of Google App Engine (Python 2.7) and WebApp2, there have been many changes in the way people code on Google App Engine. WebApp2 includes a Session Management script in the module ‘webapp2_extras‘

This is a simple sessions example with Google App Engine with Python 2.7 and WebApp2. The code is self explanatory. I haven’t implemented exceptions and errors as I won’t be using this snippet of code anymore. But figuring out something is the fun part isn’t it?

Session Module:

#Import sessions for session handling
import webapp2
from webapp2_extras import sessions

#This is needed to configure the session secret key
#Runs first in the whole application
myconfig_dict = {}
myconfig_dict['webapp2_extras.sessions'] = {
    'secret_key': 'my-super-secret-key-somemorearbitarythingstosay',
}

#Session Handling class, gets the store, dispatches the request
class BaseSessionHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def dispatch(self):
        # Get a session store for this request.
        self.session_store = sessions.get_store(request=self.request)

        try:
            # Dispatch the request.
            webapp2.RequestHandler.dispatch(self)
        finally:
            # Save all sessions.
            self.session_store.save_sessions(self.response)

    @webapp2.cached_property
    def session(self):
        # Returns a session using the default cookie key.
        return self.session_store.get_session()
#End of BaseSessionHandler Class

Main Module:

import webapp2
from webapp2_extras import sessions
import session_module

#MainHandler class where we write code for ourselves
class MainHandler(session_module.BaseSessionHandler):
 def get(self):

  if self.session.get('counter'):
   self.response.out.write('Session is in place')
   counter = self.session.get('counter')
   self.session['counter'] = counter + 1
   self.response.out.write('Counter = ' + str(self.session.get('counter')))
  else:
   self.response.out.write('Fresh Session')
   self.session['counter'] = 1
   self.response.out.write('Counter = ' + str(self.session.get('counter')))
#End of MainHandler Class

#The application starts running after this is interpreted
app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([('/', MainHandler),], config = session_module.myconfig_dict)