NGINX · Schema

PeriodicSession

Object provided as the first argument to js_periodic handlers for both http and stream (since 0.8.1).

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
variables	object	NGINX variables object (writable).
rawVariables	object	NGINX variables as Buffers (writable).

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nginx/refs/heads/main/json-schema/njs-periodic-session-schema.json",
  "title": "PeriodicSession",
  "description": "Object provided as the first argument to js_periodic handlers for both http and stream (since 0.8.1).",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "variables": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "NGINX variables object (writable).",
      "example": {}
    },
    "rawVariables": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "binary"
      },
      "description": "NGINX variables as Buffers (writable).",
      "example": {}
    }
  }
}

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