[4.2] Allow to disable session metadata tracking for guest users

administrator/components/com_config/forms/application.xml

@@ -952,6 +952,20 @@
 			<option value="1">JYES</option>
 		</field>
 
+		<field
+			name="session_metadata_for_guest"
+			type="radio"
+			label="COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SESSION_METADATA_GUEST_LABEL"
+			description="COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SESSION_METADATA_GUEST_DESC"
+			layout="joomla.form.field.radio.switcher"
+			default="1"
+			filter="boolean"
+			showon="session_metadata:1"
+			>
+			<option value="0">JNO</option>
+			<option value="1">JYES</option>
+		</field>
+
 	</fieldset>
 
 	<fieldset

administrator/language/en-GB/com_config.ini

@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SERVER_TIMEZONE_LABEL="Website Time Zone"
 COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SESSION_HANDLER_LABEL="Session Handler"
 COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SESSION_METADATA_DESC="If enabled, additional metadata about a user's session (including their username, user ID, and which application they are logged into) will be logged to the session database table.<br>If disabled, features dependent on this data will be unavailable."
 COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SESSION_METADATA_LABEL="Track Session Metadata"
+COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SESSION_METADATA_GUEST_DESC="If enabled, additional metadata about both registered and non registered user's session will be logged to the session database table. <br>If disabled, only data for registered user will be logged."
+COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SESSION_METADATA_GUEST_LABEL="Track Session Metadata for non registered Users"
 COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SESSION_TIME_LABEL="Session Lifetime (minutes)"
 COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SHARED_SESSION_DESC="When enabled, a user's session is shared between the frontend and administrator sections of the site. Note that changing this value will invalidate all existing sessions on the site. This is not available when the \"Force HTTPS\" option is set to \"Administrator Only\"."
 COM_CONFIG_FIELD_SHARED_SESSION_LABEL="Shared Sessions"

libraries/src/Session/EventListener/MetadataManagerListener.php

@@ -62,9 +62,20 @@ public function __construct(MetadataManager $metadataManager, Registry $config)
 	 */
 	public function onAfterSessionStart(SessionEvent $event)
 	{
-		if ($this->config->get('session_metadata', true) && $event->getSession()->has('user'))
+		// Whether to track Session Metadata
+		if (!$this->config->get('session_metadata', true) || !$event->getSession()->has('user'))
 		{
-			$this->metadataManager->createOrUpdateRecord($event->getSession(), $event->getSession()->get('user'));
+			return;
 		}
+
+		$user = $event->getSession()->get('user');
+
+		// Whether to track Session Metadata for Guest user
+		if (!$this->config->get('session_metadata_for_guest', true) && !$user->id)
+		{
+			return;
+		}
+
+		$this->metadataManager->createOrUpdateRecord($event->getSession(), $user);
 	}
 }