Global session variable usage questions

[beejan01]

I am using Redis in NodeJS for server session management.

thinking about putting frequently used server-side variable in session variables. Instead of trying to create all of them as individual variable I thought of making an object and putting the variables inside as shown below;

Q1. How can I reference ‘set session’ name parameter to set value of var1? (more clarity with caption below)

my_obj.var1 is not a valid name according to set session step.

Q2. Will it be more efficient if I used an object instead of individual variables and if I set variable type to number instead of default text?

@George

Do note that server sessions are text only so the data needs to be serialized to json and back on retrieval. Not sure if we have formatters for this.

Also there might be a limit of the session object length. And you have to handle the case that sessions is expired and retrieve fresh.

So at the end you might be better if in just storing the record Id and do the query when you need it later on. It will go just as fast.

the above is few years old now hoping things might be different now;

Q3. additionally, I have thought about putting resolved* permissions (resource id)’s into an array and into session memory as an array. Hoping server actions can use them in expression to check if permission exists. What is the opinion on this approach?
*(permissions are retrieved based on conditions on different tables rather than from a ready to consume table that has associate user_id with permissions)

[Cheese]

@beejan01

my_obj.var1

Try using just my_obj_var and drop the '.'.

[Apple]

Q1

Wappler doesn't support dot-notation. If you want to do that strategy, you need to Set Session on the entire object you created.

Don't complicate things, you'll find yourself fighting with Wappler...

Q2

$_SESSION is already an object, there's no efficiency gain

Q3

I'm not familiar with Wappler permission system, so I can't provide advice in this area. However, perhaps a "HashMap" (keyed array) would be better than a regular array, but your regular array approach can also work

[beejan01]

it is a custom permission implementation i am striving for that is outside Wappler permission system.