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-rw-r--r--lib/Smokeping/matchers/base.pm7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Smokeping/matchers/base.pm b/lib/Smokeping/matchers/base.pm
index 130634f..0d69bcd 100644
--- a/lib/Smokeping/matchers/base.pm
+++ b/lib/Smokeping/matchers/base.pm
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ sub Desc ($) {
=head2 Test
Run the matcher and return true or false. The Test method is called
-with a hash of two arrays giving it access to both rtt and loss values.
+with a hash containing two arrays giving it access to both rtt and loss values.
my $data=shift;
my @rtt = @{$data->{rtt}};
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ The arrays are ordered from old to new.
There may be more than the expected number of elements in this array. Address them with
$x[-1] to $x[-max].
+There's also a key called 'prevmatch' in the hash. It contains the
+value returned by the previous call of the 'Test' method. This allows
+for somewhat more intelligent alerting due to state awareness.
+
+ my $prevmatch = $data->{prevmatch};
=cut