--On 22. August 2008 10:43:26 -0700 David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> wrote:
On 8/22/08, Andrew Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> wrote:
+-------[ David Bear ]----------------------
| It seems to me that it could be usefull to have a zope method for | passing python pickles to external processes through a unix domain | socket. My thinking | was to use this as a means to abstract a data base connection. Yes, I know | there are zsql methods, sqlalchemy and other products to do this. But | my thought was to have a generilzed method for just passing a pickle | to an external process that could do anything with it. Perhaps it | could pass a pickle | to a queue that would handle the pickle if the site need some high | volume handling of data. | | Then one could have another python process listening on the socket -- ready to | receive pickles for zope.
Isn't this called ZEO? d8)
ZEO could be a model for this - but ZEO stores the pickles to zodb. What if I wanted to queue the pickle up and take some kind of long term processing action on it? Store it in a network file system -- which may have a high write latency to, put it in a data base for which there were no zope connectors, etc.
Please be _very_ detailed about your particular use. At least from what wrote so far: this sounds like an idea of the last century. -aj