Django, how to see session data in the admin interface

You can do something like this:

from django.contrib.sessions.models import Sessionclass SessionAdmin(ModelAdmin):    def _session_data(self, obj):        return obj.get_decoded()    list_display = ['session_key', '_session_data', 'expire_date']admin.site.register(Session, SessionAdmin)

It might be even that get_decoded can be used directly in list_display. And in case there's some catch that prevents this from working ok, you can decode the session data yourself, based on the linked Django source.

Continuing from Tomasz's answer, I went with:

import pprintfrom django.contrib.sessions.models import Sessionclass SessionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):    def _session_data(self, obj):        return pprint.pformat(obj.get_decoded()).replace('\n', '<br>\n')    _session_data.allow_tags=True    list_display = ['session_key', '_session_data', 'expire_date']    readonly_fields = ['_session_data']    exclude = ['session_data']    date_hierarchy='expire_date'admin.site.register(Session, SessionAdmin)

Session data is contained in a base64 encoded pickled dictionary. That's is what you're seeing in the admin because that data is stored in a TextField in the Session model.

I don't think any distributed django code stores the ip address in the session but you could do it yourself if you can access it.

In order to display the real session information, you may write your own form field that presents the decoded information. Keep in mind that you'll have to also overwrite the save method if you want to modify it. You can take a look at the encode and decode methods in django/contrib/sessions/models.py.