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djangotemplatessessiontimercountdown

Django session countdown timer

I have it in my login screen:

SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 1200 # 20 minutes

And I want to show the remaining time in my template

Does anyone know a good or middleware package for django to add a timer remaining to end the login session. I did not think anything built with Django, just javascript solutions. Thank U.

Solution

  • First you need to get the session key from the request. Then, it's easy to get the session object and query its age:

    from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session

session_key = request.COOKIES["sessionid"]
session = Session.objects.get(session_key=session_key)

remaining_seconds = session.get_expiry_age()

    Then you must add remaining_seconds variable to your template context or maybe better write a context processor so this variable is available at every template.