[ZODB-Dev] Fwd: [Zodb4-dev] rename PersistentMapping? (Jeremy Hylton)

[Jeremy Hylton]

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This question didn't get any response on the now-defunct zodb4-dev.
Any takers here?  Would anyone object if PersistentMapping was called
PersistentDict in ZODB4.

Jeremy


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From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
To: zodb4-dev@zope.org
Subject: [Zodb4-dev] rename PersistentMapping?
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:19:02 -0400

On the persistent SIG list, someone suggested change PersistentMapping
to PersistentDict.  I've advocated this position in the past, and
would like to make the change now.

The old (Zope 2.4) PersistentMapping implementation and design
philosophy was to wrap any sort of non-persistent mapping and make it
persistent.  The code went out of its way to use only __getitem__()
and keys() methods on the underlying mapping.

I've ended up changing that for Zope 3 (and later Zope 2 versions)
because all the code ended up using it as a dict.  It was helpful to
have more dict methods supported, and it simplified the implementation
to use UserDict to provide the mapping implementation.

So I'd suggest renaming the data structure.  I'd be happy to
accommodate users who need a persistent mapping object but can't use a
dict, but I'd like to wait and see if any use cases appear.  I suspect
it isn't really needed.

Jeremy



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