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Fixed #17026 -- Improved wording of contrib.messages' storage backend…
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claudep committed Jun 30, 2012
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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::

MESSAGE_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage'

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
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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.

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