From 365f360f0e79c761bd6fb9c26009b4f782f752eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederick Muriuki Muriithi
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:53:28 -0500
Subject: Initialise sessions for the application.

---
 uploader/__init__.py         | 3 +++
 uploader/default_settings.py | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'uploader')

diff --git a/uploader/__init__.py b/uploader/__init__.py
index feffcae..a3b36e7 100644
--- a/uploader/__init__.py
+++ b/uploader/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 
 from flask import Flask, request
+from flask_session import Session
 
 from .entry import entrybp
 from .upload import upload
@@ -41,6 +42,8 @@ def create_app():
     # setup jinja2 symbols
     app.add_template_global(lambda : request.url, name="request_url")
 
+    Session(app)
+
     # setup blueprints
     app.register_blueprint(base, url_prefix="/")
     app.register_blueprint(entrybp, url_prefix="/")
diff --git a/uploader/default_settings.py b/uploader/default_settings.py
index 7a9da0f..3add7ef 100644
--- a/uploader/default_settings.py
+++ b/uploader/default_settings.py
@@ -12,3 +12,7 @@ REDIS_URL = "redis://"
 JOBS_TTL_SECONDS = 1209600 # 14 days
 GNQC_REDIS_PREFIX="GNQC"
 SQL_URI = ""
+
+SESSION_TYPE = "redis"
+SESSION_PERMANENT = True
+SESSION_USE_SIGNER = True
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