[ZODB-Dev] experimenting with Standalone ZODB...

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Michel Pelletier wrote:

> I agree, although how the interface is exposed will be an issue. 
> Currently the persistence of an object is exposed through _p_
> attributes, would this be extended?  I think that's fine, altough to

Possibly have a list of revisions stored as _p_revisions, indexed by
revision number. This might be a hash if the number of revisions isn't
strictly a list.

> start, I would just expose another module in ZODB that provided methods
> you pass a persistent object too::
> 
> from ZODB import History
> 
> History.getRevision(object, 0)  # current, same as 'object'
> History.getRevision(object, 1)  # previous revision
> etc...

This, as you point out, is a pretty good compromise :) 

Take care,
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