[ZODB-Dev] Typechecking oid in getitem

[Toby Dickenson]

On Monday 19 May 2003 4:22 pm, Christian Reis wrote:
> 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.

Longs as a better type for holding the same old 64 opaque bits? 

> 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.

Shouldnt the storage be making that check?

If the problem is one storage is raising an ugly exception then I would 
consider patching the storage, not the connection.

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Toby Dickenson
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