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Refactor Sessions to clarify their usage #366

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@stefanv stefanv commented Dec 8, 2023

DBSession has been renamed to HandlerSession.

The following exist now:

  • HandlerSession: a DB session scoped to the current handler; should therefore only be used inside handlers.
  • ThreadSession: a DB session scoped to the current thread; should be used outside of handlers, e.g. when firing off tasks in threads, or inside of services.

A special HandlerSession, with knowledge of the current user, and that verifies permissions on commit, is available as self.Session on the base handler. This is the preferred way of accessing HandlerSession.

To make it easier to get hold of the current engine, the Sessions each have a .engine attribute: HandlerSession.engine.

This avoids having to access the engine as
HandlerSession.session_factory.kw["bind"].

DBSession has been renamed to HandlerSession.

The following exist now:
- HandlerSession: a DB session scoped to the current handler;
  should therefore only be used inside handlers.
- ThreadSession: a DB session scoped to the current thread;
  should be used outside of handlers, e.g. when firing off
  tasks in threads, or inside of services.

A special HandlerSession, with knowledge of the current user, and that
verifies permissions on commit, is available as `self.Session` on the
base handler. This is the *preferred way of accessing* HandlerSession.

To make it easier to get hold of the current engine, the Sessions each
have a `.engine` attribute: `HandlerSession.engine`.

This avoids having to access the engine as
`HandlerSession.session_factory.kw["bind"]`.
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