[ZODB-Dev] Typechecking oid in getitem

Mon May 19 13:22:54 EDT 2003

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:59:28AM -0400, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> The type of an oid depends on the storage, so there is no guarantee that
> it will be a string.  In fact, ZODB4 storages will soon change to using
> Python longs.  APE uses tuples IIRC.

Hmmm. So would the correct fix be to implement API so the storage can
inform what type the OID should be? I could implement something like:

    storage.getOIDType()

that returned a TypeObject. Are other storage authors against this
change? It would make sanity checking easier AFAICT. 

Take care,
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