Thanks Gergo - that's very helpful. - Mark
"Gergo Tisza" <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote in message news:caevcxn08n4vu2ssyeatr7jfprhaiohovajpxgorrpgnqgho...@mail.gmail.com... > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
