On 8/22/08, Andreas Jung <lists@zopyx.com> wrote:
--On 22. August 2008 09:33:21 -0700 David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> wrote:
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.
Ever heard of XMLRPC? Sorry, your idea sounds like a bit like broken-by-design or like I-have-never-heard--anything-of-higher-protocols.
You are correct, there are higher level protocols. However, since I was only thinking of using python processes, I thought I could simplify the whole design by just passing pickles. No need to parse an xml object, use fast cpickle module. -aj
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