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<imgsrc="https://actix.rs/img/logo.png"alt="logo"></div></a><h2class="location"><ahref="#">SessionMiddleware</a></h2><divclass="sidebar-elems"><section><h3><ahref="#implementations">Methods</a></h3><ulclass="block"><li><ahref="#method.builder">builder</a></li><li><ahref="#method.new">new</a></li></ul><h3><ahref="#trait-implementations">Trait Implementations</a></h3><ulclass="block"><li><ahref="#impl-Clone-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">Clone</a></li><li><ahref="#impl-Transform%3CS%2C%20ServiceRequest%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">Transform<S, ServiceRequest></a></li></ul><h3><ahref="#synthetic-implementations">Auto Trait Implementations</a></h3><ulclass="block"><li><ahref="#impl-RefUnwindSafe-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">RefUnwindSafe</a></li><li><ahref="#impl-Send-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">!Send</a></li><li><ahref="#impl-Sync-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">!Sync</a></li><li><ahref="#impl-Unpin-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">Unpin</a></li><li><ahref="#impl-UnwindSafe-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">UnwindSafe</a></li></ul><h3><ahref="#blanket-implementations">Blanket Implementations</a></h3><ulclass="block"><li><ahref="#impl-Any-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">Any</a></li><li><ahref="#impl-Borrow%3CT%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">Borrow<T></a></li><li><ahref="#impl-BorrowMut%3CT%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">BorrowMut<T></a></li><li><ahref="#impl-From%3CT%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">From<T></a></li><li><ahref="#impl-Instrument-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">Instrument</a></li><li><ahref="#impl-Into%3CU%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">Into<U></a></li><li><ahref="#impl-Same%3CT%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">Same<T></a></li><li><ahref="#impl-ToOwned-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">ToOwned</a></li><li><ahref="#impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">TryFrom<U></a></li><li><ahref="#impl-TryInto%3CU%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">TryInto<U></a></li><li><ahref="#impl-VZip%3CV%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">VZip<V></a></li><li><ahref="#impl-WithSubscriber-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E">WithSubscriber</a></li></ul></section><h2><ahref="index.html">In actix_session</a></h2></div></nav><main><divclass="width-limiter"><navclass="sub"><formclass="search-form"><span></span><inputclass="search-input"name="search"aria-label="Run search in the documentation"autocomplete="off"spellcheck="false"placeholder="Click or press ‘S’ to search, ‘?’ for more options…"type="search"><divid="help-button"title="help"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../help.html">?</a></div><divid="settings-menu"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../settings.html"title="settings"><imgwidth="22"height="22"alt="Change settings"src="../static.files/wheel-5ec35bf9ca753509.svg"></a></div></form></nav><sectionid="main-content"class="content"><divclass="main-heading"><h1class="fqn">Struct <ahref="index.html">actix_session</a>::<wbr><aclass="struct"href="#">SessionMiddleware</a><buttonid="copy-path"onclick="copy_path(this)"title="Copy item path to clipboard"><imgsrc="../static.files/clipboard-7571035ce49a181d.svg"width="19"height="18"alt="Copy item path"></button></h1><spanclass="out-of-band"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_session/middleware.rs.html#117-120">source</a> · <buttonid="toggle-all-docs"title="collapse all docs">[<span>−</span>]</button></span></div><divclass="item-decl"><preclass="rust struct"><code>pub struct SessionMiddleware<Store: <aclass="trait"href="storage/trait.SessionStore.html"title="trait actix_session::storage::SessionStore">SessionStore</a>> { /* private fields */ }</code></pre></div><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>A middleware for session management in Actix Web applications.</p>
<p><ahref="struct.SessionMiddleware.html"title="SessionMiddleware"><code>SessionMiddleware</code></a> takes care of a few jobs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Instructs the session storage backend to create/update/delete/retrieve the state attached to
a session according to its status and the operations that have been performed against it;</li>
<li>Set/remove a cookie, on the client side, to enable a user to be consistently associated with
the same session across multiple HTTP requests.</li>
</ul>
<p>Use <ahref="struct.SessionMiddleware.html#method.new"title="SessionMiddleware::new"><code>SessionMiddleware::new</code></a> to initialize the session framework using the default parameters.
To create a new instance of <ahref="struct.SessionMiddleware.html"title="SessionMiddleware"><code>SessionMiddleware</code></a> you need to provide:</p>
<ul>
<li>an instance of the session storage backend you wish to use (i.e. an implementation of
<p>If you want to customise use <ahref="struct.SessionMiddleware.html#method.builder"><code>builder</code></a> instead of <ahref="struct.SessionMiddleware.html#method.new"><code>new</code></a>:</p>
<p>To create a new instance of <ahref="struct.SessionMiddleware.html"title="SessionMiddleware"><code>SessionMiddleware</code></a> you need to provide:</p>
<ul>
<li>an instance of the session storage backend you wish to use (i.e. an implementation of
<p>It takes as input the two required inputs to create a new instance of <ahref="struct.SessionMiddleware.html"title="SessionMiddleware"><code>SessionMiddleware</code></a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>an instance of the session storage backend you wish to use (i.e. an implementation of
</div></details></div></details></div><h2id="trait-implementations"class="small-section-header">Trait Implementations<ahref="#trait-implementations"class="anchor">§</a></h2><divid="trait-implementations-list"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="impl-Clone-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E"class="impl has-srclink"><aclass="srclink rightside"href="../src/actix_session/middleware.rs.html#116">source</a><ahref="#impl-Clone-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E"class="anchor">§</a><h3class="code-header">impl<Store: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html"title="trait core::clone::Clone">Clone</a> + <aclass="trait"href="storage/trait.SessionStore.html"title="trait actix_session::storage::SessionStore">SessionStore</a>><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html"title="trait core::clone::Clone">Clone</a> for <aclass="struct"href="struct.SessionMiddleware.html"title="struct actix_session::SessionMiddleware">SessionMiddleware</a><Store></h3></section></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.clone"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><aclass="srclink rightside"href="../src/actix_session/middleware.rs.html#116">source</a><ahref="#method.clone"class="anchor">§</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#tymethod.clone"class="fn">clone</a>(&self) -><aclass="struct"href="struct.SessionMiddleware.html"title="struct actix_session::SessionMiddleware">SessionMiddleware</a><Store></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'>Returns a copy of the value. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#tymethod.clone">Read more</a></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.clone_from"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><spanclass="since"title="Stable since Rust version 1.0.0">1.0.0</span> · <aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/clone.rs.html#132-134">source</a></span><ahref="#method.clone_from"class="anchor">§</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#method.clone_from"class="fn">clone_from</a>(&mut self, source: <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&</a>Self)</h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'>Performs copy-assignment from <code>source</code>. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#method.clone_from">Read more</a></div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="impl-Transform%3CS%2C%20ServiceRequest%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E"class="impl has-srclink"><aclass="srclink rightside"href="../src/actix_session/middleware.rs.html#152-172">source</a><ahref="#impl-Transform%3CS%2C%20ServiceRequest%3E-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E"class="anchor">§</a><h3class="code-header">impl<S, B, Store> Transform<S, ServiceRequest> for <aclass="struct"href="struct.SessionMiddleware.html"title="struct actix_session::SessionMiddleware">SessionMiddleware</a><Store><spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> S: Service<ServiceRequest, Response = ServiceResponse<B>, Error = Error> + 'static,<br> S::Future: 'static,<br> B: MessageBody + 'static,<br> Store: <aclass="trait"href="storage/trait.SessionStore.html"title="trait actix_session::storage::SessionStore">SessionStore</a> + 'static,</span></h3></section></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="associatedtype.Response"class="associatedtype trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Response"class="anchor">§</a><h4class="code-header">type <acl
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"><summary><sectionid="impl-Instrument-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E"class="impl has-srclink"><aclass="srclink rightside"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#276">source</a><ahref="#impl-Instrument-for-SessionMiddleware%3CStore%3E"class="anchor">§</a><h3class="code-header">impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html"title="trait tracing::instrument::Instrument">Instrument</a> for T</h3></section></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.instrument"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><aclass="srclink rightside"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#82">source</a><ahref="#method.instrument"class="anchor">§</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html#method.instrument"class="fn">instrument</a>(self, span: <aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"title="struct tracing::span::Span">Span</a>) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/struct.Instrumented.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::Instrumented">Instrumented</a><Self></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'>Instruments this type with the provided <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"title="Span"><code>Span</code></a>, returning an
<code>Instrumented</code> wrapper. <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html#method.instrument">Read more</a></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.in_current_span"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><aclass="srclink rightside"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#121">source</a><ahref="#method.in_current_span"class="anchor">§</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html#method.in_current_span"class="fn">in_current_span</a>(self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/struct.Instrumented.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::Instrumented">Instrumented</a><Self></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'>Instruments this type with the <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/span/struct.Span.html#method.current">current</a><ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"><code>Span</code></a>, returning an
<ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/struct.WithDispatch.html"title="WithDispatch"><code>WithDispatch</code></a> wrapper. <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/trait.WithSubscriber.html#method.with_subscriber">Read more</a></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.with_current_subscriber"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><aclass="srclink rightside"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#221">source</a><ahref="#method.with_current_subscriber"class="anchor">§</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/trait.WithSubscriber.html#method.with_current_subscriber"class="fn">with_current_subscriber</a>(self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/instrument/struct.WithDispatch.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::WithDispatch">WithDispatch</a><Self></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'>Attaches the current <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/dispatcher/index.html#setting-the-default-subscriber">default</a><ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing-core/0.1.22/tracing_core/subscriber/trait.Subscriber.html"><code>Subscriber</code></a> to this type, returning a