tidymodules offers the ability to manage application sessions. At the moment the three options below are available.
SHINY : The default behaviour of shiny application and the default for tidymodules. Every time you access an application you get a new token Id that defines your application user session.
USER : This method defines a session based on the information available in the request object of shiny output.
It is a concatenation of the variables REMOTE_ADDR, HTTP_HOST and PATH_INFO like below.sid <- paste0(r$REMOTE_ADDR,"@",r$HTTP_HOST,r$PATH_INFO))Note that the method is actually not working properly for now as the information available via the request object
are not reflecting the actual user. We are working on a better method to uniquely identify a remote user.
CUSTOM : This method allow the developper to provide a custom function for generating the session Id.
It relies on the global options tm_session_custom being set and pointing to a function taking a shiny output as argument.
session_typeAn object of class list of length 3.