[web-devel] Yesod change: mutable session

[Max Cantor]

I can't think of any way in which it would break code, and I have a feeling a post I sent a few days ago was part of what precipitated this change.

However, as long as the previous behavior was well documented, I think it was ok.  In fact, the previous behavior seems a bit more elegant in that now the "request" is no longer a pure representation of what the client actually sent but a mutable state.  

This might make it more difficult to add functionality in the future (some kind of parallelism which I can't think of at the moment), but if you already wrote the fix, no need to go back, just my $0.02

Max

On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> One of the things which has been a stumbling block of Yesod users has
> been the semantics of setSession. In particular, it seems strange that
> this does not work:
> 
> myHandler = do
>    setSession "foo" "bar"
>    Just "bar" <- getSession "foo"
> 
> Up until now, I have kept the "input" session that the user submitted
> in his/her request separate from the "output" session which will be
> sent in the response. I've just pushed a change to the repo which
> modifies things so the above code works. I don't *think* this will
> break anyone's code, unless you were relying on the old behavior in a
> strange way I can't think of. If this causes anyone problems, please
> let me know soon; Yesod 0.6 should be released either today or
> tomorrow.
> 
> Michael
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