On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 5:49 PM Mark Clements (HappyDog) < gm...@kennel17.co.uk> wrote:
> I have an extension that uses the LinksUpdate hook to re-parse the article > in order to extract meta-data that it then stores in the DB for use > elsewhere in the extension. > (...) > In the light of the above change to the LinksUpdate hook, what changes do > I > need to make to my extension? Shall I simply drop the > ArticleDeleteComplete > hook and update LinksUpdate to check whether an article is deleted or not > (how?) to decide which action is required? Or is there more to it. > That would work; you can check the type of the LinksUpdate object to determine what kind of action you are handling. > On a separate note, I also reparse the page when the ArticleUndelete hook > is > called. Is this necessary, or is LinksUpdate also being called for > undeletes? > LinksUpdate is called when a page has new content that needs to be processed for links (or, more generally, metadata), whether it got created, edited or restored. > Finally, I do a similar thing in the TitleMoveComplete hook - I reparse > both > the old article and the new article. Is this also redundant due to > LinksUpdate calls, or not? > LinksUpdate is called in those cases as well. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
