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<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><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="fnname">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="fnname">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="fnname">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