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This PR adresses issue #928.

Purpose

Extend the user session to last 5 days

Proposal

Add django-lasuite session refresh, which already implements
OIDC token refresh and default SESSION_COOKIE_AGE to 5 days.

  • ✨(backend) extend user session to 5 days
  • 📝(doc) update session refresh configuration

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✨(backend) extend user session to 5 days
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Integrate `django-lasuite.middleware.RefreshOIDCAccesToken` to support
a longer user session.

Done:
- Update `SESSION_COOKIE_AGE` to default to 5 days.
- Update app's OIDC settings to store access, refresh and
	refresh token key in session.
- Modified `OIDCAuthenticationBackend` to include a
	'oidc_token_expiration' used by the refresh session
	middleware.
- The refresh session middleware checks against
	'oidc_token_expiration' in order to proceed for a refresh
	request with the IdP. Make sure 'oidc_token_expiration'
	gets updated on successful refresh requests. This will
	prevent the middleware to perform a token refresh on each
	user request after the first expiration occurs.
- Add tests to cover the refresh session case.

Signed-off-by: ZouicheOmar <zouiche.dev.omar@gmail.com>
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As django-lasuite already implements a token refresh middleware, thought it would be a good fit, but with a couple changes; the middleware decides to do a refresh request by checking againts a oidc_token_expiration field that is supposed to be in the request's associated session, so I've added it in OIDCAuthenticationBackend. Second change is by updating the oidc_token_expiration if a refresh is successful, and that is to prevent a refresh request to be sent on each consequent user request, which could be overkill, maybe and unecessary roundtrip and could probably cause bugs.

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