Extending session login time

app/core/config.py

@@ -33,9 +33,13 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
     database_url: str = "sqlite+aiosqlite:///./app.db"
     auto_create_tables: bool = True
 
-    # Web / cookies (the HTMX UI stores the access token in an httpOnly cookie)
+    # Web / cookies (the HTMX UI stores the access token in an httpOnly cookie).
+    # session_timeout_hours governs how long a browser login lasts before the
+    # user is bounced back to /login; it's independent of the JSON API's
+    # short-lived access_token_expire_minutes.
     cookie_name: str = "access_token"
     cookie_secure: bool = False
+    session_timeout_hours: int = 24
 
     # LDAP (direct-bind). When enabled, the login page offers an LDAP option.
     # At login the user's DN is built from ``ldap_bind_dn_template`` (with

app/core/security.py

@@ -47,10 +47,12 @@ def _create_token(
     return token, payload
 
 
-def create_access_token(subject: str | int) -> str:
+def create_access_token(
+    subject: str | int, expires_delta: timedelta | None = None
+) -> str:
     token, _ = _create_token(
         subject,
-        timedelta(minutes=settings.access_token_expire_minutes),
+        expires_delta or timedelta(minutes=settings.access_token_expire_minutes),
         ACCESS_TOKEN_TYPE,
     )
     return token