doc/book/en/development/devrepo/sessions.rst
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:23:57 +0100
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.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Sessions
========

There are three kinds of sessions.

* `user sessions` are the most common: they are related to users and
  carry security checks coming with user credentials

* `super sessions` are children of ordinary user sessions and allow to
  bypass security checks (they are created by calling unsafe_execute
  on a user session); this is often convenient in hooks which may
  touch data that is not directly updatable by users

* `internal sessions` have all the powers; they are also used in only a
  few situations where you don't already have an adequate session at
  hand, like: user authentication, data synchronisation in
  multi-source contexts

.. note::
  Do not confuse the session type with their connection mode, for
  instance : 'in memory' or 'pyro'.

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* authentication and management of sessions