[wp-hackers] Autosave API for custom post types?

[TV productions]

Thanks Pascal! I am going to dig into ticket 20564.
That small tutorial is very nice, I used it to make my revisions work. 
The problem is really the autosave. When you restore an autosave now, 
all the meta data is lost.

~Ties

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On 05-03-2014 16:33, Pascal Birchler wrote:
> Currently WP doesn't store revisions of post meta data, but there are 
> plans
> to do this. See this ticket: 
> https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20564
> 
> John Blackbourn has written a small tutorial to make it work with a 
> plugin,
> too: https://johnblackbourn.com/post-meta-revisions-wordpress
> 
> 
> 2014-03-05 0:02 GMT+01:00 TV productions <info at tv-productions.org>:
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> I believe it does so, but it doesn't submit the whole post form.
> 
> This is the post data that a typical autosave request has (after the 
> title
> has changed)
> ==================================
> action          autosave
> autosave        true
> autosavenonce   ebb79c8859
> catslist
> comment_status  open
> content
> excerpt
> ping_status     open
> post_author     1
> post_id         2996
> post_name       a
> post_title      Ab
> post_type       easy-photo-album
> ==================================
> I hope my problem is a bit more clear now.
> 
> Ties
> 
> ---
> 
> TV productions :: Web development and stuff
> http://tv-productions.org
> 
> On 04-03-2014 23:57, Andrew Bartel wrote:
> 
> Does autosave not trigger the save_post and/or edit_post actions?  You
> could probably hook on to those.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:50 PM, TV productions 
> <info at tv-productions.org>
> wrote:
> 
> Hi wp-hackers,
> 
> I have a plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-photo-album/) with a
> custom post type and as update I've added successfully support for
> revisions. But when I restore an autosave, the metadata (that is saved
> with
> the revisions) is empty. After digging into the code, I found out that
> autosave only checks the title and the content (which in my plugin 
> doesn't
> exists on the edit page) for differences and saves only them.
> 
> So I was wondering if there is (or will be in the near future) a 
> autosave
> API that allows to save also "custom data". And, if that is not the 
> case,
> does anyone know a workaround to save my metadata with autosave?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ties
> 
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