Talk to Tres Seaver about the observer interface and the event channel stuff. He has lots of ideas about this and I think it does pretty much what you want... cheers, Chris Robin Becker wrote:
I'm trying to build a Reverse Cross Referencing Product. The idea is to enable documents to know which other documents in the Zope data base are pointing at them. I would like to use a persistent mapping to store the link information, but since eventually the object might be quite large will I get a performance hit when accessing only a small part of the object.
It certainly seems to work for small instances, but I'm worried about what happens as my structure gets larger. Is there an alternate way to do this?
The heart of the object are the methods
def __init__(self, id, title): '''Initialise a new instance of RXRef''' self.id=str(id) self.title = str(title) self.title = title self._N = PersistentMapping()
def addNode(self,n): '''Add a new node if not known''' N = self._N if not N.has_key(n): N[n]=[]
def addLinks(self,src,DST): '''We have a single src and multiple destinations''' if type(DST) not in SEQTYPES: DST = [DST] N = self._N for dst in DST: self.addNode(dst) if src not in N[dst]: N[dst].append(src)
def delLinks(self,src,DST): '''We have a single src and multiple destinations''' if type(DST) not in SEQTYPES: DST = [DST] N = self._N for dst in DST: if N.has_key(dst): if src in N[dst]: N[dst].remove(src) if N[dst]==[]: del N[dst]
def getRLinks(self,dst): '''get links pointing to dst''' N = self._N return N.has_key(dst) and N[dst][:] or []
-- Robin Becker
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