Reference

NOTE

Requires ream-core v0.4.0 or above.

References are not well documented and are quite buggy. At this point you can only reference upstream variables. Type validations are inconsistent and sometimes ignored. Writing references in the web-editor may cause the page to freeze.

Example:

# Country
- name: USA

## State
- name: Illinois
- country_name: USA

is equivalent to:

# Country
- name: USA

## State
- name: Illinois
- country_name (ref str): Country$name

Variable country_name in entry State is a reference to variable name in entry Country.

References are APIs that make templating and data filtering possible in the future. In production you probably wouldn't use ref type directly.

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