Acquires session for use

Requests container that hosts.runs this entity to end its instance

Sets IsJustLoggedIn to true to indicate that user has supplied credentials/got checked via security manager. The caller of this method is implementation-specific and depends on what is considered to be "proof of users' identity"

Generates new GUID and stores it in ID storing old ID value in OldID property which is not serializable. The implementations may elect to re-stow the existing session under the new ID. This method is usefull for security, i.e. when user logs-in we may want to re-generate ID

Releases session after use

Gets unique session identifier

Indicates whether this instance was requested to be ended and will get destoyed by the hosting container

Indicates that user login happened in current request processing cycle. This flag is useful for long term token assignment on release

Indicates that session object was just created with current request processing cycle

Shortcut to this.Items.TryGetValue(...). Returns null if key is not found

References item dictionary that may be used to persist object graphs per session

Returns user's language preference or null

Returns last login type

Returns the UTC DateTime of the last login/when HasJustLoggedIn() was called for the last time within the lifetime of this session object or NULL

When this parameter is not null then RegenerateID() was called and session provider may need to re-stow session object under a new ID

References a user this session is for