Added MaxLength support port of: https://github.com/boj/redistore/pull/5

pgstore.go

@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ package pgstore
 import (
 	"database/sql"
 	"encoding/base32"
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
 	"github.com/coopernurse/gorp"
 	"github.com/gorilla/securecookie"
 	"github.com/gorilla/sessions"
 	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
-	"net/http"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
 )
 
 type PGStore struct {
@@ -123,6 +124,18 @@ func (db *PGStore) Save(r *http.Request, w http.ResponseWriter, session *session
 	return nil
 }
 
+// MaxLength restricts the maximum length of new sessions to l.
+// If l is 0 there is no limit to the size of a session, use with caution.
+// The default for a new PGStore is 4096. PostgreSQL allows for max
+// value sizes of up to 1GB (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/datatype-character.html)
+func (s *PGStore) MaxLength(l int) {
+	for _, c := range s.Codecs {
+		if codec, ok := c.(*securecookie.SecureCookie); ok {
+			codec.MaxLength(l)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 //load fetches a session by ID from the database and decodes its content into session.Values
 func (db *PGStore) load(session *sessions.Session) error {
 	var s Session

pgstore_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package pgstore
 
 import (
+	"encoding/base64"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"testing"
@@ -99,6 +100,24 @@ func TestPGStore(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("Retrieved session had wrong value in round 3:", session.Values["counter"])
 	}
 
+	// ROUND 3 - Increase max length
+	req, err = http.NewRequest("GET", "http://www.example.com", nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal("failed to create round 3 request", err)
+	}
+
+	req.AddCookie(sessions.NewCookie(session.Name(), encoded, session.Options))
+	session, err = ss.New(req, "my session")
+	session.Values["big"] = make([]byte, base64.StdEncoding.DecodedLen(4096*2))
+
+	if err = ss.Save(req, headerOnlyResponseWriter(m), session); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected an error, got nil")
+	}
+
+	ss.MaxLength(4096 * 3) // A bit more than the value size to account for encoding overhead.
+	if err = ss.Save(req, headerOnlyResponseWriter(m), session); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal("Failed to save session:", err.Error())
+	}
 }
 
 func TestSessionOptionsAreUniquePerSession(t *testing.T) {