RDM wrote:
I have a specialist (actually, EMarket has a specialist <grin>) that manages objects that from a design point of view I think should have a couple of Images as attributes (thumbnail and fullsized images of the product). The question is, how do I implement this using ZPatterns? Currently all of the other object data is pulled from an SQL database. I don't mind storing the Images in the ZODB, but I'm having a hard time finguring out how I would implement that.
I've been thinking about my own need for a massive searchable image archive, and have been wondering if I could reimplement the ZPhotoAlbum TTW product (which inherits from ZCatalog and ObjectManager) as a Specialist with a Rack of Photo objects (Photo is a 'normal' Python Product), but I'm unsure of how to go about this. I've also been considering creating an ImageArchive ZClass that inherits from ZCatalog and BTree folder, so I have infrastructure that is better suited to managing thousands (potentially hundreds of thousands) of objects. Any ideas would be welcome. Michael Bernstein.