Sessions

Since HTTP driven applications are stateless, sessions provide a way to store information about the user across multiple requests. That user information is typically placed in a persistent store / backend that can be accessed from subsequent requests.

As soon as your Gozen app boots it automatically starts a session driver.

Setting a session

session.Set(w, r, "foo", "1")

Getting a session

b := session.Get(r, "foo")

Destroying all sessions

session.Destroy(w, r)

Passing sessions to your view/template

func ProfileView(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

	//restrict access if not logged in
	if session.Get(r, "loggedin") != "1" {
		http.Redirect(w, r, "/login", http.StatusFound)
		return
	}

	data := map[string]interface{}{
		"name": session.Get(r, "name"),
	}
	templates.Render(w, r, "profile", data)
}