Session Store Expiration

store.go

package store

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/boltdb/bolt"
)

// reap removes sessions older than a given duration.
// This function assumes that all session data is stored in a "sessions" bucket
// and the data is organized so the key is the session id and the value is
// laid out as:
//
//   -8 bytes-   --n bytes--
//   timestamp + sessiondata
//
func reap(db *bolt.DB, duration time.Duration) error {
	// The batch size represents how many sessions we'll check at
	// a time for a given transaction. We don't want to check all the
	// sessions every time because that would lock the database for
	// too long if the sessions bucket gets too large.
	batchsz := 1000

	var prev []byte
	for {
		// Get the current timestamp.
		now := time.Now()

		// Iterate over a subset of keys at a time and delete old ones.
		err := db.Update(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
			c := tx.Bucket([]byte("sessions")).Cursor()

			var i int
			for k, v := c.Seek(prev); ; k, v = c.Next() {
				// If we hit the end of our sessions then exit and start over next time.
				if k == nil {
					seek = nil
					return nil
				}

				// If we have iterated over our batch size then save our place
				// and we'll start from there next time. We need to copy over
				// the bytes in "k" because it's not guarenteed to exist there
				// after the transaction is over.
				if i == batchsz {
					seek = make([]byte, len(k))
					copy(seek, k)
					return nil
				}

				// If we've made it this far then we can check if a session's
				// timestamp is older than our expiration "duration". If so
				// then we can delete the item in-place in the cursor.
				timestamp := time.Unix(int64(binary.BigEndian.Uint64(v)), 0)
				if now.Since(timestamp) > duration {
					if err := c.Delete(); err != nil {
						return fmt.Errorf("delete: %s", err)
					}
				}
			}
		})
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}

		time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
	}
}