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authorJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-06-01 12:59:33 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-06-01 12:59:33 -0400
commit5e9e72b7356b39711ccf72f6b44b883b7d65ea3e (patch)
tree2e8a2efcf2be9162f79a5af41598cc13d2806fc2 /doc
parentc1289de1eff4c0b4b2cd47e61b2273970e327009 (diff)
document that pagestate values can be anything Storable handles
This only started being true by accident when the index was changed to use Storable, but it's a nice feature.
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@@ -361,10 +361,11 @@ next time ikiwiki is run. The hash holds per-page state, so to set a value,
use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}=$value`, and to retrieve the value,
use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}`.
-`$key` can be any string you like, but `$id` must be the same as the "id"
-parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin. This is so
-ikiwiki can know when to delete pagestate for plugins that are no longer
-used.
+The `$value` can be anything that perl's Storable module is capable of
+serializing. `$key` can be any string you like, but `$id` must be the same
+as the "id" parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin. This
+is so ikiwiki can know when to delete pagestate for plugins that are no
+longer used.
When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too.