Golang : How to feed or take banana with Gorilla Web Toolkit Session package

From previous tutorial on context package, we learn that in order to pass data to other handlers outside the lifetime of the http.Request, we need to use Gorilla's session package.

The following code example demonstrate how to pass variables from one handler to another handler with the session package.

NOTE : In order to use the session package correctly, you need to first initialize session's Options at the init() function and also remember to process your session data FIRST before writing anything to the client(web browser).

Here you go!

 package main

 import (
 "fmt"
 "github.com/gorilla/mux"
 "github.com/gorilla/sessions"
 "net/http"
 )

 var encryptionkey = "something-very-secret"

 var store = sessions.NewCookieStore([]byte(encryptionkey))

 func init() {

 store.Options = &sessions.Options{
 // change domain to match your machine. Can be localhost
 Domain: "example.com", 
 Path: "/",
 MaxAge: 3600 * 3, // 3 hours
 HttpOnly: true,
 }
 }

 func SetSessionHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 // IMPORTANT! Do not writer anything to client first
 // otherwise, your session data will be blank.
 //w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("Setting session...")))

 session, _ := store.Get(r, "your-session-name")

 // set some session values.
 session.Values["banana"] = "yes"
 session.Values[108] = 801
 session.Values["username"] = "extract from twitter"

 // Save
 err := session.Save(r, w)

 if err != nil {
 fmt.Println("Session not saved!", err)
 w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintln("Setting not saved! ", err)))
 }

 // ONLY write to client after session is read.
 w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("Setting session...")))

 }

 func GetSessionHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

 // IMPORTANT! Do not writer anything to client first
 // otherwise, your session data will be blank.

 //w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("Getting session...")))

 // reading session values - without adding it to registry
 session, err := store.New(r, "your-session-name")

 if err != nil {
 fmt.Println("Unable to retrieve session!", err)
 w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintln("Unable to retrieve session! ", err)))
 }

 fmt.Println("Session name is : ", session.Name())

 fmt.Println("Session values from SetSessionHandler...")

 for k, v := range session.Values {
 fmt.Printf("Key : [%v] Values : [%v]\n", k, v)
 }

 // ONLY write to client after session is read.

 w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("Getting session...")))
 }

 func main() {
 mx := mux.NewRouter()

 mx.HandleFunc("/", SetSessionHandler)
 mx.HandleFunc("/get", GetSessionHandler)

 http.ListenAndServe(":8080", mx)
 }

References :

http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions#Options

http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions#CookieStore.New

http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions#Save