Enhanced Flask Application Session Management

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📅 2024-02-17 — Session: Enhanced Flask Application Session Management

🕒 19:00–20:10
🏷️ Labels: Flask, Session Management, Error Handling, Google Oauth, Web Development
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The goal of this session was to enhance session management and error handling in a Flask application, focusing on user interaction recording, session persistence, and integration with Google OAuth.

Key Activities

  • Implemented error handling for the /submit_answer route, including session initialization and frontend adjustments.
  • Logged user session data using Python’s print function and provided a sample HTML template for user feedback.
  • Troubleshot user session issues, focusing on user ID retrieval during login and submission processes.
  • Explored session persistence with Google OAuth, detailing session cookies and best practices.
  • Developed a logout route to clear sessions and redirect users, ensuring re-authentication with Google OAuth.
  • Managed cookies and session expiration strategies in Flask applications.
  • Addressed KeyError in session handling by correcting key naming inconsistencies.
  • Resolved critical issues related to the Evaluator class and feedback.html template rendering.
  • Updated the OpenAI API model in the Evaluator class to handle deprecation errors.
  • Enhanced user interaction recording by refining the record_interaction function and updating submission routes.

Achievements

  • Successfully implemented session management improvements and error handling strategies.
  • Enhanced user interaction recording and feedback mechanisms.
  • Resolved critical errors and updated deprecated API models.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing of session persistence and logout functionality with Google OAuth.
  • Additional refinements to CSS styling for improved user interface aesthetics.

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