[doc] update Session documentation
A major refactoring of Session/Transaction handling is commit. This is a good
occasion to improves the documention.
--- a/doc/book/en/devrepo/repo/sessions.rst Thu Mar 21 19:08:07 2013 +0100
+++ b/doc/book/en/devrepo/repo/sessions.rst Fri Mar 22 19:31:21 2013 +0100
@@ -199,3 +199,8 @@
if hasattr(req.cnx, 'foo_user') and req.foo_user:
return 1
return 0
+
+Full API Session
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: cubicweb.server.session.Session
--- a/server/session.py Thu Mar 21 19:08:07 2013 +0100
+++ b/server/session.py Fri Mar 22 19:31:21 2013 +0100
@@ -48,28 +48,28 @@
@objectify_predicate
def is_user_session(cls, req, **kwargs):
- """repository side only predicate returning 1 if the session is a regular
- user session and not an internal session
- """
+ """return 1 when session is not internal.
+
+ This predicate can only be used repository side only. """
return not req.is_internal_session
@objectify_predicate
def is_internal_session(cls, req, **kwargs):
- """repository side only predicate returning 1 if the session is not a regular
- user session but an internal session
- """
+ """return 1 when session is not internal.
+
+ This predicate can only be used repository side only. """
return req.is_internal_session
@objectify_predicate
def repairing(cls, req, **kwargs):
- """repository side only predicate returning 1 if the session is not a regular
- user session but an internal session
- """
+ """return 1 when repository is running in repair mode"""
return req.vreg.config.repairing
class transaction(object):
- """context manager to enter a transaction for a session: when exiting the
+ """Ensure that the transaction is either commited or rollbacked at exit
+
+ Context manager to enter a transaction for a session: when exiting the
`with` block on exception, call `session.rollback()`, else call
`session.commit()` on normal exit
"""
@@ -124,8 +124,9 @@
class security_enabled(object):
- """context manager to control security w/ session.execute, since by
- default security is disabled on queries executed on the repository
+ """context manager to control security w/ session.execute,
+
+ By default security is disabled on queries executed on the repository
side.
"""
def __init__(self, session, read=None, write=None):
@@ -142,14 +143,22 @@
class TransactionData(object):
+ """Small object hold core Transaction data"""
def __init__(self, txid):
+ #: transaction unique id
self.transactionid = txid
+ #: reentrance handling
self.ctx_count = 0
class Session(RequestSessionBase):
- """Repository usersession, tie a session id, user, connections set and
- other session data all together.
+ """Repository user session
+
+ This tie all together:
+ * session id,
+ * user,
+ * connections set,
+ * other session data.
About session storage / transactions
------------------------------------
@@ -172,6 +181,7 @@
:attr:`_threads_in_transaction` is a set of (thread, connections set)
referencing threads that currently hold a connections set for the session.
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.transaction
You should not have to use neither :attr:`_txdata` nor :attr:`__threaddata`,
simply access transaction data transparently through the :attr:`_threaddata`
@@ -184,11 +194,24 @@
this may also be used as a communication channel between the client and
the repository.
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.get_shared_data
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.set_shared_data
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.added_in_transaction
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.deleted_in_transaction
+
+ Transaction state information:
+
+ :attr:`running_dbapi_query`, boolean flag telling if the executing query
+ is coming from a dbapi connection or is a query from within the repository
+
:attr:`cnxset`, the connections set to use to execute queries on sources.
During a transaction, the connection set may be freed so that is may be
used by another session as long as no writing is done. This means we can
have multiple sessions with a reasonably low connections set pool size.
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.set_cnxset
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.free_cnxset
+
:attr:`mode`, string telling the connections set handling mode, may be one
of 'read' (connections set may be freed), 'write' (some write was done in
the connections set, it can't be freed before end of the transaction),
@@ -204,9 +227,24 @@
'uncommitable' (some :exc:`ValidationError` or :exc:`Unauthorized` error
has been raised during the transaction and so it must be rollbacked).
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.commit
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.rollback
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.close
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.closed
+
+ Security level Management:
+
:attr:`read_security` and :attr:`write_security`, boolean flags telling if
read/write security is currently activated.
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.set_write_security
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.set_read_security
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.init_security
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.reset_security
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.security_enabled
+
+ Hooks Management:
+
:attr:`hooks_mode`, may be either `HOOKS_ALLOW_ALL` or `HOOKS_DENY_ALL`.
:attr:`enabled_hook_categories`, when :attr:`hooks_mode` is
@@ -215,12 +253,23 @@
:attr:`disabled_hook_categories`, when :attr:`hooks_mode` is
`HOOKS_ALLOW_ALL`, this set contains hooks categories that are disabled.
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.deny_all_hooks_but
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.allow_all_hooks_but
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.is_hook_category_activated
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.is_hook_activated
- :attr:`running_dbapi_query`, boolean flag telling if the executing query
- is coming from a dbapi connection or is a query from within the repository
+ Data manipulation:
+
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.add_relation
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.add_relations
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.delete_relation
- .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.deny_all_hooks_but
- .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.all_all_hooks_but
+ Other:
+
+ .. automethod:: cubicweb.server.session.Session.call_service
+
+
+
"""
is_request = False
is_internal_session = False
@@ -246,6 +295,7 @@
self.set_language(user.prefered_language())
# internals
self._tx_data = {}
+ # Data local to the thread
self.__threaddata = threading.local()
self._threads_in_transaction = set()
self._closed = False