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<h1class="fqn"><spanclass="in-band">Struct <ahref="index.html">actix_session</a>::<wbr><aclass="struct"href="#">Session</a><buttonid="copy-path"onclick="copy_path(this)"title="Copy item path to clipboard"><imgsrc="../clipboard.svg"width="19"height="18"alt="Copy item path"></button></span></h1><spanclass="out-of-band"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_session/session.rs.html#41">source</a> · <aid="toggle-all-docs"href="javascript:void(0)"title="collapse all docs">[<spanclass="inner">−</span>]</a></span></div><divclass="docblock item-decl"><preclass="rust struct"><code>pub struct Session(_);</code></pre></div><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>The primary interface to access and modify session state.</p>
<p><ahref="struct.Session.html"title="Session"><code>Session</code></a> is an <ahref="#impl-FromRequest">extractor</a>—you can specify it as an input type for your
request handlers and it will be automatically extracted from the incoming request.</p>
<p>You can also retrieve a <ahref="struct.Session.html"title="Session"><code>Session</code></a> object from an <code>HttpRequest</code> or a <code>ServiceRequest</code> using
<p>It returns an error if it fails to deserialize as <code>T</code> the JSON value associated with <code>key</code>.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.entries"class="method has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_session/session.rs.html#92-94">source</a></span><ahref="#method.entries"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="#method.entries"class="fnname">entries</a>(&self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/cell/struct.Ref.html"title="struct core::cell::Ref">Ref</a><'_, <aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/collections/hash/map/struct.HashMap.html"title="struct std::collections::hash::map::HashMap">HashMap</a><<aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/string/struct.String.html"title="struct alloc::string::String">String</a>, <aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/string/struct.String.html"title="struct alloc::string::String">String</a>>></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Get all raw key-value data from the session.</p>
<p>It returns an error if it fails to serialize <code>value</code> to JSON.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.remove"class="method has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_session/session.rs.html#126-135">source</a></span><ahref="#method.remove"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="#method.remove"class="fnname">remove</a>(&self, key: &<aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.str.html">str</a>) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/option/enum.Option.html"title="enum core::option::Option">Option</a><<aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/string/struct.String.html"title="struct alloc::string::String">String</a>></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Remove value from the session.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.remove_as"class="method has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_session/session.rs.html#141-155">source</a></span><ahref="#method.remove_as"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="#method.remove_as"class="fnname">remove_as</a><T: <aclass="trait"href="https://docs.rs/serde/1.0.136/serde/de/trait.DeserializeOwned.html"title="trait serde::de::DeserializeOwned">DeserializeOwned</a>>(<br> &self, <br> key: &<aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.str.html">str</a><br>) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/option/enum.Option.html"title="enum core::option::Option">Option</a><<aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><T, <aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/string/struct.String.html"title="struct alloc::string::String">String</a>>></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Remove value from the session and deserialize.</p>
<p>Returns None if key was not present in session. Returns <code>T</code> if deserialization succeeds,
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.clear"class="method has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_session/session.rs.html#158-165">source</a></span><ahref="#method.clear"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="#method.clear"class="fnname">clear</a>(&self)</h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Clear the session.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.purge"class="method has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_session/session.rs.html#168-172">source</a></span><ahref="#method.purge"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="#method.purge"class="fnname">purge</a>(&self)</h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Removes session both client and server side.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.renew"class="method has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_session/session.rs.html#175-181">source</a></span><ahref="#method.renew"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="#method.renew"class="fnname">renew</a>(&self)</h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Renews the session key, assigning existing session state to new key.</p>
</div><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="associatedtype.Error"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Error"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a> = Error</h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>The associated error which can be returned.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="associatedtype.Future"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Future"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="#associatedtype.Future"class="associatedtype">Future</a> = Ready<<aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><<aclass="struct"href="struct.Session.html"title="struct actix_session::Session">Session</a>, Error>></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Future that resolves to a Self.</p>
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"><summary><sectionid="impl-Instrument"class="impl has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#276">source</a></span><ahref="#impl-Instrument"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/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"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#82">source</a></span><ahref="#method.instrument"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html#method.instrument"class="fnname">instrument</a>(self, span: <aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"title="struct tracing::span::Span">Span</a>) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/instrument/struct.Instrumented.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::Instrumented">Instrumented</a><Self></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Instruments this type with the provided <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"title="Span"><code>Span</code></a>, returning an
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.in_current_span"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#121">source</a></span><ahref="#method.in_current_span"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html#method.in_current_span"class="fnname">in_current_span</a>(self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/instrument/struct.Instrumented.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::Instrumented">Instrumented</a><Self></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Instruments this type with the <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/span/struct.Span.html#method.current">current</a><ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"><code>Span</code></a>, returning an
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"><summary><sectionid="impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E"class="impl has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert/mod.rs.html#598-607">source</a></span><ahref="#impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl<T, U><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><U> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> U: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.Into.html"title="trait core::convert::Into">Into</a><T>, </span></h3></section></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="associatedtype.Error-2"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Error-2"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a> = <aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/enum.Infallible.html"title="enum core::convert::Infallible">Infallible</a></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>The type returned in the event of a conversion error.</p>
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"><summary><sectionid="impl-TryInto%3CU%3E"class="impl has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert/mod.rs.html#583-592">source</a></span><ahref="#impl-TryInto%3CU%3E"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl<T, U><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html"title="trait core::convert::TryInto">TryInto</a><U> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> U: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>, </span></h3></section></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="associatedtype.Error-1"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Error-1"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a> = <U as <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>>::<aclass="associatedtype"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type core::convert::TryFrom::Error">Error</a></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>The type returned in the event of a conversion error.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.with_current_subscriber"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><spanclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#221">source</a></span><ahref="#method.with_current_subscriber"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/instrument/trait.WithSubscriber.html#method.with_current_subscriber"class="fnname">with_current_subscriber</a>(self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/tracing/instrument/struct.WithDispatch.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::WithDispatch">WithDispatch</a><Self></h4></section></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Attaches the current <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.32/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
