A SessionProvider provides SessionInfo and support for Session. More...

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Public Member Functions
	__construct ()

	__toString ()

	canChangeUser ()
	Indicate whether the user associated with the request can be changed.

	describe (Language $lang)
	Return an identifier for this session type.

	getAllowedUserRights (SessionBackend $backend)
	Fetch the rights allowed the user when the specified session is active.

	getManager ()
	Get the session manager.

	getRememberUserDuration ()
	Returns the duration (in seconds) for which users will be remembered when Session::setRememberUser() is set.

	getVaryCookies ()
	Return the list of cookies that need varying on.

	getVaryHeaders ()
	Return the HTTP headers that need varying on.

	invalidateSessionsForUser (User $user)
	Invalidate existing sessions for a user.

	mergeMetadata (array $savedMetadata, array $providedMetadata)
	Merge saved session provider metadata.

	newSessionInfo ( $id=null)
	Provide session info for a new, empty session.

	persistSession (SessionBackend $session, WebRequest $request)
	Persist a session into a request/response.

	persistsSessionId ()
	Indicate whether self::persistSession() can save arbitrary session IDs.

	preventSessionsForUser ( $username)
	Prevent future sessions for the user.

	provideSessionInfo (WebRequest $request)
	Provide session info for a request.

	refreshSessionInfo (SessionInfo $info, WebRequest $request, &$metadata)
	Validate a loaded SessionInfo and refresh provider metadata.

	sessionIdWasReset (SessionBackend $session, $oldId)
	Notification that the session ID was reset.

	setConfig (Config $config)
	Set configuration.

	setLogger (LoggerInterface $logger)

	setManager (SessionManager $manager)
	Set the session manager.

	suggestLoginUsername (WebRequest $request)
	Get a suggested username for the login form.

	unpersistSession (WebRequest $request)
	Remove any persisted session from a request/response.

	whyNoSession ()
	Return a Message for why sessions might not be being persisted.

Protected Member Functions
	describeMessage ()
	Return a Message identifying this session type.

	hashToSessionId ( $data, $key=null)
	Hash data as a session ID.

Protected Attributes
Config	$config

LoggerInterface	$logger

SessionManager	$manager

int	$priority
	Session priority.

Detailed Description

A SessionProvider provides SessionInfo and support for Session.

A SessionProvider is responsible for taking a WebRequest and determining the authenticated session that it's a part of. It does this by returning an SessionInfo object with basic information about the session it thinks is associated with the request, namely the session ID and possibly the authenticated user the session belongs to.

The SessionProvider also provides for updating the WebResponse with information necessary to provide the client with data that the client will send with later requests, and for populating the Vary and Key headers with the data necessary to correctly vary the cache on these client requests.

An important part of the latter is indicating whether it even can tell the client to include such data in future requests, via the persistsSessionId() and canChangeUser() methods. The cases are (in order of decreasing commonness):

Cannot persist ID, no changing User: The request identifies and authenticates a particular local user, and the client cannot be instructed to include an arbitrary session ID with future requests. For example, OAuth or SSL certificate auth.
Can persist ID and can change User: The client can be instructed to return at least one piece of arbitrary data, that being the session ID. The user identity might also be given to the client, otherwise it's saved in the session data. For example, cookie-based sessions.
Can persist ID but no changing User: The request uniquely identifies and authenticates a local user, and the client can be instructed to return an arbitrary session ID with future requests. For example, HTTP Digest authentication might somehow use the 'opaque' field as a session ID (although getting MediaWiki to return 401 responses without breaking other stuff might be a challenge).
Cannot persist ID but can change User: I can't think of a way this would make sense.

Note that many methods that are technically "cannot persist ID" could be turned into "can persist ID but not change User" using a session cookie, as implemented by ImmutableSessionProviderWithCookie. If doing so, different session cookie names should be used for different providers to avoid collisions.

Since: 1.27

See also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:SessionManager_and_AuthManager

Definition at line 78 of file SessionProvider.php.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ __construct()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::__construct ( )

Note: To fully initialize a SessionProvider, the setLogger(), setConfig(), and setManager() methods must be called (and should be called in that order). Failure to do so is liable to cause things to fail unexpectedly.

Definition at line 100 of file SessionProvider.php.

References MediaWiki\Session\SessionInfo\MIN_PRIORITY.

Member Function Documentation

◆ __toString()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::__toString ( )

Note: Only override this if it makes sense to instantiate multiple instances of the provider. Value returned must be unique across configured providers. If you override this, you'll likely need to override self::describeMessage() as well.

Returns: string

Definition at line 460 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ canChangeUser()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::canChangeUser ( )

abstract

Indicate whether the user associated with the request can be changed.

If false, any session passed to self::persistSession() will have a user that was originally provided by self::provideSessionInfo(). Further, self::provideSessionInfo() may only provide sessions that have a user already set.

If true, the provider may be passed sessions with arbitrary users, and will be expected to manipulate the request in such a way that future requests will cause self::provideSessionInfo() to provide a SessionInfo with that ID. This can be as simple as not passing any 'userInfo' into SessionInfo's constructor, in which case SessionInfo will load the user from the saved session's metadata.

For example, a session provider for OAuth or SSL client certificates would function by matching the OAuth headers or certificate to a particular user, and thus would return false here since it can't arbitrarily assign those OAuth credentials or that certificate to a different user. A session provider that shoves information into cookies, on the other hand, could easily do so.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend only

Returns: bool

Reimplemented in InstallerSessionProvider, MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider, and MediaWiki\Session\ImmutableSessionProviderWithCookie.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\newSessionInfo(), and MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\preventSessionsForUser().

◆ describe()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::describe ( Language $lang )

Return an identifier for this session type.

Parameters

Language $lang Language to use.

Returns: string

Implements MediaWiki\Session\SessionProviderInterface.

Definition at line 485 of file SessionProvider.php.

References $lang, MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\describeMessage(), and wfMessage().

◆ describeMessage()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::describeMessage ( )

protected

Return a Message identifying this session type.

This default implementation takes the class name, lowercases it, replaces backslashes with dashes, and prefixes 'sessionprovider-' to determine the message key. For example, MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider produces 'sessionprovider-mediawiki-session-cookiesessionprovider'.

Note: If self::__toString() is overridden, this will likely need to be overridden as well.

Warning: This will be called early during MediaWiki startup. Do not use $wgUser, $wgLang, $wgOut, the global Parser, or their equivalents via RequestContext from this method!

Returns: \Message

Definition at line 479 of file SessionProvider.php.

References wfMessage().

Referenced by MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\describe().

◆ getAllowedUserRights()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::getAllowedUserRights ( SessionBackend $backend )

Fetch the rights allowed the user when the specified session is active.

This is mainly meant for allowing the user to restrict access to the account by certain methods; you probably want to use this with MWGrants. The returned rights will be intersected with the user's actual rights.

Parameters

SessionBackend $backend

Returns: null|string[] Allowed user rights, or null to allow all.

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\BotPasswordSessionProvider.

Definition at line 444 of file SessionProvider.php.

References MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend\getProvider().

◆ getManager()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::getManager ( )

Get the session manager.

Returns: SessionManager

Definition at line 128 of file SessionProvider.php.

References MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\$manager.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Session\SessionInfo\__construct(), and MediaWiki\Session\BotPasswordSessionProvider\newSessionForRequest().

◆ getRememberUserDuration()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::getRememberUserDuration ( )

Returns the duration (in seconds) for which users will be remembered when Session::setRememberUser() is set.

Null means setting the remember flag will have no effect (and endpoints should not offer that option).

Returns: int|null

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider.

Definition at line 294 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ getVaryCookies()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::getVaryCookies ( )

Return the list of cookies that need varying on.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Returns: string[]

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider, and MediaWiki\Session\ImmutableSessionProviderWithCookie.

Definition at line 420 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ getVaryHeaders()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::getVaryHeaders ( )

Return the HTTP headers that need varying on.

The return value is such that someone could theoretically do this:

foreach ( $provider->getVaryHeaders() as $header => $options ) {
  $outputPage->addVaryHeader( $header, $options );
}

Note that the $options parameter to addVaryHeader has been deprecated since 1.34, and should be null or an empty array.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Returns: array

Definition at line 411 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ hashToSessionId()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::hashToSessionId	(		$data,
			$key = null )

finalprotected

Hash data as a session ID.

Generally this will only be used when self::persistsSessionId() is false and the provider has to base the session ID on the verified user's identity or other static data. The SessionInfo should then typically have the 'forceUse' flag set to avoid persistent session failure if validation of the stored data fails.

Parameters

string	$data
string \| null	$key	Defaults to $this->config->get( 'SecretKey' )

Returns: string

Definition at line 511 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ invalidateSessionsForUser()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::invalidateSessionsForUser ( User $user )

Invalidate existing sessions for a user.

If the provider has its own equivalent of CookieSessionProvider's Token cookie (and doesn't use User::getToken() to implement it), it should reset whatever token it does use here.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Parameters

User $user

Definition at line 392 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ mergeMetadata()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::mergeMetadata	(	array	$savedMetadata,
		array	$providedMetadata )

Merge saved session provider metadata.

This method will be used to compare the metadata returned by provideSessionInfo() with the saved metadata (which has been returned by provideSessionInfo() the last time the session was saved), and merge the two into the new saved metadata, or abort if the current request is not a valid continuation of the session.

The default implementation checks that anything in both arrays is identical, then returns $providedMetadata.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Parameters

array	$savedMetadata	Saved provider metadata
array	$providedMetadata	Provided provider metadata (from the SessionInfo)

Returns: array Resulting metadata

Exceptions

MetadataMergeException If the metadata cannot be merged. Such exceptions will be handled by SessionManager and are a safe way of rejecting a suspicious or incompatible session. The provider is expected to write an appropriate message to its logger.

Definition at line 202 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ newSessionInfo()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::newSessionInfo ( $id = null )

Provide session info for a new, empty session.

Return null if such a session cannot be created. This base implementation assumes that it only makes sense if a session ID can be persisted and changing users is allowed.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Parameters

string | null $id ID to force for the new session

Returns: SessionInfo|null If non-null, must return true for $info->isIdSafe(); pass true for $data['idIsSafe'] to ensure this.

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\BotPasswordSessionProvider.

Definition at line 169 of file SessionProvider.php.

References MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\canChangeUser(), and MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\persistsSessionId().

◆ persistSession()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::persistSession	(	SessionBackend	$session,
		WebRequest	$request )

abstract

Persist a session into a request/response.

For example, you might set cookies for the session's ID, user ID, user name, and user token on the passed request.

To correctly persist a user independently of the session ID, the provider should persist both the user ID (or name, but preferably the ID) and the user token. When reading the data from the request, it should construct a User object from the ID/name and then verify that the User object's token matches the token included in the request. Should the tokens not match, an anonymous user must be passed to SessionInfo::__construct().

When persisting a user independently of the session ID, $session->shouldRememberUser() should be checked first. If this returns false, the user token must not be saved to cookies. The user name and/or ID may be persisted, and should be used to construct an unverified UserInfo to pass to SessionInfo::__construct().

A backend that cannot persist sesison ID or user info should implement this as a no-op.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend only

Parameters

SessionBackend	$session	Session to persist
WebRequest	$request	Request into which to persist the session

Reimplemented in InstallerSessionProvider, MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider, and MediaWiki\Session\ImmutableSessionProviderWithCookie.

◆ persistsSessionId()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::persistsSessionId ( )

abstract

Indicate whether self::persistSession() can save arbitrary session IDs.

If false, any session passed to self::persistSession() will have an ID that was originally provided by self::provideSessionInfo().

If true, the provider may be passed sessions with arbitrary session IDs, and will be expected to manipulate the request in such a way that future requests will cause self::provideSessionInfo() to provide a SessionInfo with that ID.

For example, a session provider for OAuth would function by matching the OAuth headers to a particular user, and then would use self::hashToSessionId() to turn the user and OAuth client ID (and maybe also the user token and client secret) into a session ID, and therefore can't easily assign that user+client a different ID. Similarly, a session provider for SSL client certificates would function by matching the certificate to a particular user, and then would use self::hashToSessionId() to turn the user and certificate fingerprint into a session ID, and therefore can't easily assign a different ID either. On the other hand, a provider that saves the session ID into a cookie can easily just set the cookie to a different value.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend only

Returns: bool

Reimplemented in InstallerSessionProvider, MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider, and MediaWiki\Session\ImmutableSessionProviderWithCookie.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\newSessionInfo().

◆ preventSessionsForUser()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::preventSessionsForUser ( $username )

Prevent future sessions for the user.

If the provider is capable of returning a SessionInfo with a verified UserInfo for the named user in some manner other than by validating against $user->getToken(), steps must be taken to prevent that from occurring in the future. This might add the username to a blacklist, or it might just delete whatever authentication credentials would allow such a session in the first place (e.g. remove all OAuth grants or delete record of the SSL client certificate).

The intention is that the named account will never again be usable for normal login (i.e. there is no way to undo the prevention of access).

Note that the passed user name might not exist locally (i.e. User::idFromName( $username ) === 0); the name should still be prevented, if applicable.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Parameters

string $username

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\BotPasswordSessionProvider.

Definition at line 374 of file SessionProvider.php.

References MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\canChangeUser().

◆ provideSessionInfo()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::provideSessionInfo ( WebRequest $request )

abstract

Provide session info for a request.

If no session exists for the request, return null. Otherwise return an SessionInfo object identifying the session.

If multiple SessionProviders provide sessions, the one with highest priority wins. In case of a tie, an exception is thrown. SessionProviders are encouraged to make priorities user-configurable unless only max-priority makes sense.

Warning: This will be called early in the MediaWiki setup process, before $wgUser, $wgLang, $wgOut, $wgTitle, the global parser, and corresponding pieces of the main RequestContext are set up! If you try to use these, things will break.

Note: The SessionProvider must not attempt to auto-create users. MediaWiki will do this later (when it's safe) if the chosen session has a user with a valid name but no ID.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Parameters

WebRequest $request

Returns: SessionInfo|null

Reimplemented in InstallerSessionProvider, MediaWiki\Session\BotPasswordSessionProvider, and MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider.

◆ refreshSessionInfo()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::refreshSessionInfo	(	SessionInfo	$info,
		WebRequest	$request,
		&	$metadata )

Validate a loaded SessionInfo and refresh provider metadata.

This is similar in purpose to the 'SessionCheckInfo' hook, and also allows for updating the provider metadata. On failure, the provider is expected to write an appropriate message to its logger.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Parameters

SessionInfo	$info	Any changes by mergeMetadata() will already be reflected here.
WebRequest	$request
array \| null	&$metadata	Provider metadata, may be altered.

Returns: bool Return false to reject the SessionInfo after all.

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\BotPasswordSessionProvider.

Definition at line 229 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ sessionIdWasReset()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::sessionIdWasReset	(	SessionBackend	$session,
			$oldId )

Notification that the session ID was reset.

No need to persist here, persistSession() will be called if appropriate.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend only

Parameters

SessionBackend	$session	Session to persist
string	$oldId	Old session ID

Definition at line 308 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ setConfig()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::setConfig ( Config $config )

Set configuration.

Parameters

Config $config

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider.

Definition at line 112 of file SessionProvider.php.

References MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\$config.

◆ setLogger()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::setLogger ( LoggerInterface $logger )

Definition at line 104 of file SessionProvider.php.

References MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\$logger.

◆ setManager()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::setManager ( SessionManager $manager )

Set the session manager.

Parameters

SessionManager $manager

Definition at line 120 of file SessionProvider.php.

References MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\$manager.

◆ suggestLoginUsername()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::suggestLoginUsername ( WebRequest $request )

Get a suggested username for the login form.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend only

Parameters

WebRequest $request

Returns: string|null

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider.

Definition at line 430 of file SessionProvider.php.

◆ unpersistSession()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::unpersistSession ( WebRequest $request )

abstract

Remove any persisted session from a request/response.

For example, blank and expire any cookies set by self::persistSession().

A backend that cannot persist sesison ID or user info should implement this as a no-op.

Access:\n protected For use by \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager only

Parameters

WebRequest $request Request from which to remove any session data

Reimplemented in InstallerSessionProvider, MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider, and MediaWiki\Session\ImmutableSessionProviderWithCookie.

◆ whyNoSession()

MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::whyNoSession ( )

Return a Message for why sessions might not be being persisted.

For example, "check whether you're blocking our cookies".

Returns: Message|null

Implements MediaWiki\Session\SessionProviderInterface.

Reimplemented in MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider, and MediaWiki\Session\ImmutableSessionProviderWithCookie.

Definition at line 494 of file SessionProvider.php.

Member Data Documentation

◆ $config

Config MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::$config

protected

Definition at line 84 of file SessionProvider.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider\setConfig(), and MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\setConfig().

◆ $logger

LoggerInterface MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::$logger

protected

Definition at line 81 of file SessionProvider.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\setLogger().

◆ $manager

SessionManager MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::$manager

protected

Definition at line 87 of file SessionProvider.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\getManager(), and MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider\setManager().

◆ $priority

int MediaWiki\Session\SessionProvider::$priority

protected

Session priority.

Used for the default newSessionInfo(), but could be used by subclasses too.

Definition at line 92 of file SessionProvider.php.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

includes/session/SessionProvider.php

Public Member Functions

Protected Member Functions

Protected Attributes

Detailed Description

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ __construct()

Member Function Documentation

◆ __toString()

◆ canChangeUser()

◆ describe()

◆ describeMessage()

◆ getAllowedUserRights()

◆ getManager()

◆ getRememberUserDuration()

◆ getVaryCookies()

◆ getVaryHeaders()

◆ hashToSessionId()

◆ invalidateSessionsForUser()

◆ mergeMetadata()

◆ newSessionInfo()

◆ persistSession()

◆ persistsSessionId()

◆ preventSessionsForUser()

◆ provideSessionInfo()

◆ refreshSessionInfo()

◆ sessionIdWasReset()

◆ setConfig()

◆ setLogger()

◆ setManager()

◆ suggestLoginUsername()

◆ unpersistSession()

◆ whyNoSession()

Member Data Documentation

◆ $config

◆ $logger

◆ $manager

◆ $priority