InMemory Provider

Nancy.Session.InMemory

This session store simply stores the session in process memory.

Enabling the Provider

Provide an instance of InMemorySessionConfiguration for the [config] parameter in the examples on Nancy.Session.Persistable. (You will need to open/use the Nancy.Session.InMemory namespace as well, or specify the fully-qualified name.)

Configuring the Provider

This provider requires no specific configuration options; however, the ones on Nancy.Session.Persistable still apply.

Why Use It?

Why is there a "persistable" session store that doesn't actually persist sessions? Good question.

• If all you want is a place to keep sessions (a Q&D SDHP, if you will), and you don't care that they survive restarts, but you like the strongly-typed session member features - use this.
• If you're developing an application and you know you'll want persistent sessions, but you don't want to actually figure out what persistence implementation you will use - use this as a working stand-in until you get back to that // TODO comment.

The development and implementation of this also serves a few purposes:

• When abstracting the RethinkDB session store into what is now the Nancy.Session.Persistable project, I wanted a second implementation to prove that the interface was sufficient.
• The store itself uses a static mutable instance of an F# immutable list; as each list is immutable, each session is stored as an immutable object, and the framework synchronizes access to static members, race conditions should not be a problem.
• I wanted to address the two use cases above.