Springboot app session timeout

Question

I have created a SpringBoot MVC/Security app 1.2.2.RELEASE and my application.properties contains server settings like

#Tomcat port and contextPath details
server.port=8080
server.contextPath=/test
#server.session-timeout=120
server.sessionTimeout=120

The documentation states

server.session-timeout= # session timeout in seconds

but the ServerProperties.java uses sessionTimeout;

If you look at the application.properties code I have posed, I have tried both independently and together, but I don't get timed out after 2 minutes, I don't have any other code explicitly written to perform any session handeling.

Has anyone come across this issue? What am I missing or doing wrong?

Answer 1

(This applies to Spring 1.5.x at the time of this writing)

Note that if you're using Redis session @EnableRedisHttpSession (such as in the other comment @Phoebe Li's case), then the application property server.session won't be applied. You'll have to set it manually by code like this:

@EnableRedisHttpSession
public class HttpSessionConfig {
    @Bean
    public RedisOperationsSessionRepository sessionRepository(RedisConnectionFactory factory) {
        RedisOperationsSessionRepository sessionRepository = new RedisOperationsSessionRepository(factory);

        //Set the TTL of redis' key, which in turn will expire session when TTL is reached
        sessionRepository.setDefaultMaxInactiveInterval(15); //e.g. 15 seconds

        return sessionRepository;
    }I
}