Others (myself included) have asked this same question. To date, I've not seen a satisfactory answer. Most object databases provide a unique identifier (an oid) to a given object. That reference can be stored in other objects for use when necessary. Good object databases are capable of establishing relationships between objects that are maintained. To my knowledge, Zope doesn't work that way. Instead, it uses the URL as a pseudo oid. This has both good and bad points. URL use is handy for web integration, but you give up the standard oid paradigm and is another reason why Zope is hard to grok. (But it is one of the reasons why Zope is so justly admired.) I think you would have to use something analogous to "cookies" in the stateless HTTP protocol. I.e., some sort of intermediary. How to do that, I know not. Ron
Hi all,
I would like to have an object in one folder be referenced by another object in another folder (think symlinks in UNIX) ... but I'm not sure what properties an object has that identify it's absolute location (absolute_url is a little fluffy, no?).
Anyone have any ideas on how to approach this?
Thanks in advance,
Ziniti
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