[Snowman 2] Saving and autosaving

[TheMadExile]

Short “TL;DR” answer:

The method you need—<Story>.saveHash()—was removed by the new owner of Snowman. He wants to be convinced that it needs to be restored. Thus, someone needs to convince him of that.

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Long answer:

As I noted in your previous thread about this, the method you really want <Story>.saveHash() was removed by the new owner of Snowman, Dax Cox (a.k.a. videlais). I think the reason he gave for doing so was poor, but it is what it is.

He did note that you could attempt to convince him to put it back:

@videlais

If you have a good use case where you want a hash but don’t want to set a URL, I’ll consider breaking them apart again, but it is not currently a bug.

As to that, I’m unsure what was lacking in the reason I gave in that very thread: (emphasis added)

@TheMadExile

While it was only used internally by <Story>.save() , it was also useful for external code to offer a better save experience than Snowman does natively, so its removal seems bizarre.

Case in point, I’ve already written—a couple times now (here’s one example)—automatic save systems for, previous, versions of Snowman, similar to what you’re now attempting, that depended on <Story>.saveHash(). They’re irrevocably broken in the current release of Snowman.