Method of implementing session_ids prior to v1.13, no longer works in 1.16

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I had this working on streamlit v1.13 but it appears that no longer works on streamlit 1.16

from streamlit.report_thread import get_report_ctx
ctx = get_report_ctx()
print(ctx.session_id)

With the release 1.16, is there a new approach to handling session_ids for multiple users in a streamlit cloud instance uploading files? It seems the module that it used to live (report_thread>get_report_ctx) in has been renamed or removed.

The above was modeled after the approached discussed in this closed forum thread:

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Hi, you honestly shouldn’t be using this api but if you want to really keep attempting to use an internal, private api, you can check out this thread… Because it’s an internal api, it can change in any release and thus you run into maintainability problems.

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Agreed we shouldn’t be using it but there are legitimate reasons for wanting to have an identifier that is associated with the session, for example logging user activity with a session - especially if the user can access sensitive data. I’ve been using session_id, in the various hacks, for this since a couple of months after Streamlit was first released. There have been many requests for a standard, supported, API but I’m not aware of one.
I’m currently updating the application to 1.20 and have had to set the applications session tracker to None as I really can’t be bothered to find out where the session_id has moved to in the latest refactoring.

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Here you go – for version 1.20.0

from streamlit.runtime.scriptrunner import get_script_run_ctx
import streamlit as st

ctx = get_script_run_ctx()
session_id = ctx.session_id

You could also use one or more websocket headers as a proxy for session_id (perhaps Sec-Websocket-Key):

from streamlit.web.server.websocket_headers import _get_websocket_headers
import streamlit as st

headers = _get_websocket_headers()

session_id = headers.get("Sec-Websocket-Key")

if session_id is not None:
    # ... do something with session_id

See:

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If all you need is a session id you can have it using a very stable API.

import uuid

if "session_id" not in st.session_state:
    st.session_state.session_id = uuid.uuid4()
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Thanks very much. I’ll likely use that for a session Id and _get_websocket_headers() toset up a basic authentication.

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Thanks for this, the websockets approach is the way to go.

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