Method makeSession

rest/session_api.go:133–140

makeSession creates a user session and responds with CouchDB compatible session info.

(user auth.User)

// makeSession creates a user session and responds with CouchDB compatible session info.
func (h *handler) makeSession(user auth.User) error {
	oneTime := false
	_, err := h.makeSessionWithTTL(user, defaultSessionTTL, oneTime)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return h.respondWithSessionInfo()
}

// Creates a session with TTL and adds to the response.  Does NOT return the session info response.
func (h *handler) makeSessionWithTTL(user auth.User, expiry time.Duration, oneTime bool) (sessionID string, err error) {