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authorClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2012-06-30 22:21:23 +0200
committerClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2012-06-30 22:21:23 +0200
commit03896eb5df74a47237ec3ed9a73aadc925e90dbb (patch)
treeddfb6385cdc2bdb423a1d84e13b180514efce518 /docs/ref
parentda200c5e35cdbb617572977bcbf97fae33920b2e (diff)
Fixed #17026 -- Improved wording of contrib.messages' storage backends section
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-rw-r--r--docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
index da6336e832..6929a3b0d0 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ Storage backends
----------------
The messages framework can use different backends to store temporary messages.
-To change which backend is being used, add a `MESSAGE_STORAGE`_ to your
+If the default FallbackStorage isn't suitable to your needs, you can change
+which backend is being used by adding a `MESSAGE_STORAGE`_ to your
settings, referencing the module and class of the storage class. For
example::
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ example::
The value should be the full path of the desired storage class.
-Four storage classes are included:
+Three storage classes are available:
``'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage'``
This class stores all messages inside of the request's session. It
@@ -74,6 +75,8 @@ Four storage classes are included:
messages are dropped if the cookie data size would exceed 4096 bytes.
``'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage'``
+ This is the default storage class.
+
This class first uses CookieStorage for all messages, falling back to using
SessionStorage for the messages that could not fit in a single cookie.