How to set a session to timeout in 2 minutes as I set maxInactiveInterval(in ROOT.xml)?

Hi, I’m testing with sharing sessions using tomcat-redis-session-manager jar. Sessions are stored in Redis as I expected but session timeout is not working.

I understand that if I set maxInactiveInterval=120(ROOT.xml) then session will be expired in 2 minutes. But whether or not I configures session maxInactiveInterval, session expired in 5 minutes. It seems maxInactiveInterval doesn’t work. Did I misunderstand something?

I’m wondering if I programatically set the time limit of inactivity by

request.getSession().setMaxInactiveInterval(7* 60); //7 minutes

I think session timeout minutes this configuration has high priority but session expired in 5 minutes(web.xml configurataion).

Currently, we have our session timeout set in the Catalina/ROOT.xml file, like this

<Context path="/">
  <Valve className="com.radiadesign.catalina.session.RedisSessionHandlerValve" />
  <Manager className="com.radiadesign.catalina.session.RedisSessionManager"
    host="x.x.x.x."
    port="6380"
    password="xxxx"
    database="0"
    maxInactiveInterval="120" />
</Context>

and myapplication/web.xml file

<session-config>
    <session-timeout>5</session-timeout>
  </session-config>
...



* Using

Tomcat 7 version
Java 1.7.0_65 version
tomcat-redis-session-manager-1.2-tomcat-7-java-7.jar
jedis-2.1.0.jar
commons-pool-1.6.jar

I added these jars in Tomcat/lib and reboot the server. 

Thank you in advance.

[ghost]

Hi All,

Noted the following. The session-timeout configuration in the web.xml should be used. “maxInactiveInterval” is not used any more.

WARNING: Manager.setMaxInactiveInterval() is deprecated and calls to this method are ignored. Session timeouts should be configured in web.xml or via Context.setSessionTimeout(int timeoutInMinutes)

[ozvale]

I’ve solved this problem.

find class RedisSession,add following codes.

public void writeObjectData(java.io.ObjectOutputStream out) {
		super.writeObjectData(out);
		out.writeLong(this.getCreationTime());
               //read and write maxInactiveInterval to redis
		out.writeInt(getMaxInactiveInterval());
}
public void readObjectData(java.io.ObjectInputStream in)  {
		super.readObjectData(in);
		this.setCreationTime(in.readLong());
                // read and set maxInactiveInterval from redis
		this.setMaxInactiveInterval(in.readInt());
}

find RedisSessionManager,find following codes in method saveInternal.

  log.trace("Setting expire timeout on session [" + redisSession.getId() + "] to " + getMaxInactiveInterval());
      jedis.expire(binaryId, getMaxInactiveInterval());

modify like this

if (redisSession.getMaxInactiveInterval() > 0) {
            log.trace("Setting expire timeout on session [" + redisSession.getId() + "] to " +redisSession.getMaxInactiveInterval());         
           jedis.expire(binaryId, redisSession.getMaxInactiveInterval());
}

find sessionFromSerializedData from RedisSessionManager.do as the following codes.

session.setId(id);
session.setNew(false);
// session.setMaxInactiveInterval(getMaxInactiveInterval());
session.access();
session.setValid(true);
session.resetDirtyTracking();