Session support for beego

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#Beego Session

this patch adds session support to beego framework

beego.patch

diff --git a/beego.go b/beego.go
index e648480..5ddedc7 100644
--- a/beego.go
+++ b/beego.go
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ func initBeforeHttpRun() {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if SessionOn {
+	if SessionOn || UseSessions {
 		var err error
 		sessionConfig := AppConfig.String("sessionConfig")
 		if sessionConfig == "" {
diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 1984e3c..cba42df 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ var (
 	AppConfig              config.ConfigContainer
 	GlobalSessions         *session.Manager // global session mananger
 	SessionOn              bool             // flag of starting session auto. default is false.
+	UseSessions            bool             // flag of application uses sessions. default is false.
 	SessionProvider        string           // default session provider, memory, mysql , redis ,etc.
 	SessionName            string           // the cookie name when saving session id into cookie.
 	SessionGCMaxLifetime   int64            // session gc time for auto cleaning expired session.
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ func init() {
 	ViewsPath = "views"
 
 	SessionOn = false
+	UseSessions = false
 	SessionProvider = "memory"
 	SessionName = "beegosessionID"
 	SessionGCMaxLifetime = 3600
@@ -224,6 +226,10 @@ func ParseConfig() (err error) {
 			SessionOn = sessionon.(bool)
 		}
 
+		if usesessions, err := getConfig("bool", "UseSessions"); err == nil {
+			UseSessions = usesessions.(bool)
+		}
+
 		if sessProvider, _ := getConfig("string", "SessionProvider"); sessProvider != "" {
 			SessionProvider = sessProvider.(string)
 		}
diff --git a/controller.go b/controller.go
index 6f7b510..7163f51 100644
--- a/controller.go
+++ b/controller.go
@@ -415,6 +415,14 @@ func (c *Controller) SaveToFile(fromfile, tofile string) error {
 // StartSession starts session and load old session data info this controller.
 func (c *Controller) StartSession() session.SessionStore {
 	if c.CruSession == nil {
+    if c.Ctx.Input.CruSession == nil {
+      r := c.Ctx.Request
+      w := c.Ctx.ResponseWriter
+      c.Ctx.Input.CruSession = GlobalSessions.SessionStart(w, r)
+      defer func() {
+        c.Ctx.Input.CruSession.SessionRelease(w)
+      }()
+    }
 		c.CruSession = c.Ctx.Input.CruSession
 	}
 	return c.CruSession