[Cgi-session-user] Feature request: expiring parameters based on mtime.

[Dmitri T. <dti...@vo...>]

Dear Mark, Sherzod, and the List:

I would like to know what you think about the following API enhancement:
I would like to be able to expire certain parameters based on mtime, not
atime.  Current 'expire' method only works with access time.

Reason: I have a DB-driven web site.  In order to improve performance, I
store some query results in session variables.  But those I'd like to
refresh from time to time.  To achieve this, I do things like

  $session->param('abc', $value);
  $session->param('abc_mtime', time);

  # And later:
  if ($session->param('abc_mtime') + $interval < time) {
    # expired.
  }

I would love to be able to say

  $session->param('abc', $value);
  $session->expire_mtime('abc', '2m'); # or something like that

and be done with it.

Questions:

a) what do you think?
b) if I implement it, will you accept the patch?
c) if the answer to (b) is yes, what kind of method name would you like?

Sincerely,

  - Dmitri.