Re: SessionHandlerInterface protocol

On 23.06.2021 at 15:18, Mathieu Dubois wrote: > Le 23/06/2021 à 14:37, Christoph M. Becker a écrit : > >> On 23.06.2021 at 13:41, Mathieu Dubois wrote: >> >>> Le 23/06/2021 à 12:01, Christoph M. Becker a écrit : >>> >>>> Before ::read() is called, open() is called.  ::open() is suppossed to >>>> create the empty session data, if no data for the given session exist.. >>>> This empty data string should then be returned from ::read().  If >>>> ::read() fails to read the data, it should return false (or actually >>>> any >>>> non-string value in the current implementation) to signal failure. >>> I might be confused but the session id is not passed to ::open() so how >>> is it supposed to create the empty session data ? By using session_id ? >> Ah, right, ::open() is not supposed to create the empty session data. >> This can be done in ::read(); the built-in "files" handler does this, >> for instance; if the file does not exist and can't be created, ::read() >> fails. > > OK, that was the only explanation that made sense. Do we agree that the > doc could be improved by stating this more clearly ? Yes. Consider to submit a pull request (<https://github.com/php/doc-en/pulls>). Christoph