From b1f7b54fece789a2abcda356c7c2bca23a7100f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Isaac
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:44:54 +0000
Subject: web: Explain why we pass a project thunk to the dev server.

* tissue/web/dev.scm (handler): Explain why we pass in a project
thunk.
---
 tissue/web/dev.scm | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tissue')

diff --git a/tissue/web/dev.scm b/tissue/web/dev.scm
index 0140e0f..5ca7d16 100644
--- a/tissue/web/dev.scm
+++ b/tissue/web/dev.scm
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
   "Handle web @var{request} with @var{body} and return two values---the
 response headers and body. See @code{start-dev-web-server} for
 documentation of @var{xapian-index} and @var{project-thunk}."
+  ;; The project configuration could have changed between requests and
+  ;; we want to read the latest configuration on each request. So, we
+  ;; require a thunk that loads the project configuration, rather than
+  ;; the project configuration itself.
   (let ((project (project-thunk))
         (path (uri-path (request-uri request))))
     (log-request request)
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