Backport fix on session check crash (PR 33)

session_redis/models/__init__.py

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+from . import user

session_redis/models/user.py

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+from openerp import models, tools
+
+
+class User(models.Model):
+    _inherit = 'res.users'
+
+    @tools.ormcache('sid')
+    def _compute_session_token(self, sid):
+        """Make sure to return an unicode string.
+
+        Odoo creates a session token using hexdigest Session which is str
+        but with redis we set the token from a dictionary of values passing
+        it in json format. When dumping values from json, we always get unicode
+        thus both are incompatible.
+
+        The shortest path is to fix the output of the computed session by Odoo.
+
+        """
+        return unicode(super(User, self)._compute_session_token(sid))