Hi Itai, Ok.. I'm working an DumbZPatternsExample V3.0 so this is exactly the sort of conversation that needs to take place for me. ;-) It seems to me that when you want a Reseller, or a Customer you certainly want to go to the Resellers or Customers Specialist and ask for the Participant. So.. since there is never more than one Actor for each Participant, I think I'd keep the information about the actor_id in the Participant. I might even suggest that you could use the actor_id as the participant_id, depending on how these id's are implemented. (it seems that it would be particularly nice if the ids are known to be globally unique that you could use this fact to help identifying relationships...) Now.. you seem to be asking how to run it the other way around. How do we get the correct Participant from the Actors specialist? Hmm... I'm not sure what the scenario would be that would require this, but it seems to me that it's a reasonable enough possibility. How about a little search... : PythonScript: getParticipantFor( self, participantSpecialistList ) while Participants in participantSpecialistList: theParticipant = Participants.getParticipantForActor( self.actor_id ) if theParticipant is not None: break return theParticipant It's up to the 'Participants' Specialists to implement getParticipantForActor based on the actor_id. (if actor_id is the same as reseller_id then it's just getItem!) Now... to make this slick, add an attribute handler for your actor that does this automagically when you ask for 'participant'. I think something like: WITH self.getParticipantFor( [Resellers, Customers] ) COMPUTE myParticipant = RESULT or NOT_FOUND should do it. In code you just say: resellerName = self.myParticipant.name or somthing like that. Of course.. I've not tried this. But it *seems* like it should work. ;-) -steve
"Itai" == Itai Tavor <itai@optusnet.com.au> writes:
Itai> There might be many ways to implement each connection, but I Itai> think that there will always be one or two ways that would Itai> be simplest and most robust... so this would not only save Itai> you the trouble of figuring it out alone every time, but Itai> would also prevent you from getting stuck down the road. Itai> The problem is that we have at best guesses, and at worst Itai> empty table cells in the guide. I'm still struggling with Itai> many of these... The worst one seems to be XOR type Itai> connections, where a Specialist implementing a role is not Itai> involved. Example: Itai> Actor: Person. Itai> Participants: Customer, Reseller Itai> Object connections: (Customer) 1-------[XOR A] 1 (Actor) Itai> [XOR A] 1-------1 (Reseller) Itai> acl_users Login Manager authenticates users using Actor Itai> objects (by connecting the the Actors Specialist). The Itai> application needs to identify the Participant. Itai> If you add participant_id to Actor, you still don't know Itai> which Participant Specialist to load the Participant Itai> from. You don't want to add participant_type to Actor (at Itai> least, I don't think you do - it seems real ugly). So, what Itai> do you do? Do you place the Customers and Resellers Itai> Specialists inside a Participants Specialist? We'll have to Itai> call it MegaSpecialist :-). Bad idea - other parts of the Itai> application have to access Resellers specifically, so Itai> Resellers should not be hidden inside the Itai> MegaSpecialist. So, do you create a Participants Specialist Itai> with virtual Racks for Customers and Resellers? What, Itai> another Specialist just to link Actors to Participants? Will Itai> this never end :-(? Itai> See, I'm stuck. Please please please could someone who do Itai> not identify themselves as ZPatterns novices find the time Itai> to add to this guide? Itai> Steve Spicklemire wrote: >> I think this is a brilliant idea! I'm sure there are sixteen >> ways to implement each of these... but having one concrete way >> would be a big help to a novice.... >> >> -steve >> >>> >>> >>> Object relationship | (Pattern) | Implementation >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 1 1 | Add prop to A: b_id A --------- B | In A call Bs >>> (Specialist of B): my_b = Bs.getItem(b_id) >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> n 1 | Add prop to B: a_id A --------- B | Add method to Bs >>> (Specialist of B): getBsForA(a_id) | In A call Bs: my_b_list = >>> Bs.getBsForA(a_id) >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> n n | ? A --------- B | >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> n [XOR A] 1 | Add Specialist Xs implementing role of A and B A >>> ------------- | Add prop to C: x_id n [XOR A] 1 C | In A, B >>> call Xs: my_x = Xs.getItem(x_id) B -------------- | >>> (Participant-Transaction)| (A and B - Participants, C - >>> Transaction) >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> [XOR A] 1 n | Add prop to B, C: a_id ------------ B | In B, C >>> call As (Specialist of A): my_a = As.getItem(a_id) A [XOR A] 1 >>> n | ------------ C | (can't do reverse connection?) >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> Does anyone think this would be useful? Can we get the experts >>> to expand/correct/verify this? Obviously more relationship >>> types need to be added, and also some extra information is >>> needed (such as who's responsible to set the id attributes and >>> how, when and how reverse connections are done, etc.). >>> >> > Itai Itai> -- Itai Tavor "Je sautille, donc je suis." C3Works Itai> itai@c3works.com - Kermit the Frog Itai> "If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything" Itai> _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev Itai> maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org Itai> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross Itai> posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - Itai> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce Itai> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )