show how to use the serializer

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/narr/sessions.rst b/docs/narr/sessions.rst
index d4d3c1074..ded7e87e3 100644
--- a/docs/narr/sessions.rst
+++ b/docs/narr/sessions.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ Remember that sessions should be short-lived and thus the number of clients affe
 
     from pyramid.session import JSONSerializer
     from pyramid.session import PickleSerializer
+    from pyramid.session import SignedCookieSessionFactory
 
     class JSONSerializerWithPickleFallback(object):
         def __init__(self):
@@ -116,6 +117,11 @@ Remember that sessions should be short-lived and thus the number of clients affe
             except ValueError:
                 return self.pickle.loads(value)
 
+    # somewhere in your configuration code
+    serializer = JSONSerializerWithPickleFallback()
+    session_factory = SignedCookieSessionFactory(..., serializer=serializer)
+    config.set_session_factory(session_factory)
+
 .. index::
    single: session object