Struct Session

pub struct Session { /* private fields */ }

Gateway session information for a shard’s active connection.

A session is a stateful identifier on Discord’s end for running a shard. It is used for maintaining an authenticated Websocket connection based on an identifier. While a session is only connected to one shard, one shard can have more than one session: if a shard shuts down its connection and starts a new session, then the previous session will be kept alive for a short time.

Reusing sessions

Sessions are able to be reused across connections to Discord. If an application’s process needs to be restarted, then this session information—which can be (de)serialized via serde—can be stored, the application restarted, and then used again via ConfigBuilder::session.

If the delay between disconnecting from the gateway and reconnecting isn’t too long and Discord hasn’t invalidated the session, then the session will be reused by Discord. As a result, any events that were “missed” while restarting and reconnecting will be played back, meaning the application won’t have missed any events. If the delay has been too long, then a new session will be initialized, resulting in those events being missed.

Implementations

impl Session

pub fn new(sequence: u64, session_id: String) -> Self

Create new configuration for resuming a gateway session.

Can be provided to ConfigBuilder::session.

pub const fn id(&self) -> &str

ID of the session being resumed.

The ID of the session is different from the ID of the shard; shards are identified by an index, and when authenticated with the gateway the shard is given a unique identifier for the gateway session.

Session IDs are obtained by shards via sending an Identify command with the shard’s authentication details, and in return the session ID is provided via the Ready event.

pub const fn sequence(&self) -> u64

Current sequence of the connection.

Number of the events that have been received during this session. A larger number typically correlates that the shard has been connected with this session for a longer time, while a smaller number typically correlates to meaning that it’s been connected with this session for a shorter duration of time.

As a shard is connected to the gateway and receives events this sequence will be updated in real time when obtaining the session of a shard.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for Session

fn clone(&self) -> Session

Returns a copy of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for Session

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for Session

fn deserialize<__D>(__deserializer: __D) -> Result<Self, __D::Error>

where __D: Deserializer<'de>,

Deserialize this value from the given Serde deserializer.

impl PartialEq for Session

fn eq(&self, other: &Session) -> bool

Tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl Serialize for Session

fn serialize<__S>(&self, __serializer: __S) -> Result<__S::Ok, __S::Error>

where __S: Serializer,

Serialize this value into the given Serde serializer.

impl Eq for Session

impl StructuralPartialEq for Session