[ZODB-Dev] question
Shane Hathaway
shane at zope.com
Wed Sep 10 11:35:49 EDT 2003
Christian Reis wrote:
> I have a reasonably simple use case that I'd like to share. I'll use as
> an example our UI for creating a sale.
>
> We have a sale dialog, in which the user is expected to enter
> information about a sale being processed. When I open the sale
> dialog I hand to it a Sale (persistent) instance, which is altered
> as the user manipulates the interface.
Is the Sale instance actually added to the database before handing it to
the dialog? If you added it to the database only after the user has
clicked "Ok", you wouldn't have a transaction problem.
Alternatively, you might store the Sale instance in a temporary place
until the user actually confirms the sale. You might need this if you
have some kind of "save for later" button on the dialog.
In either case, you can commit or roll back transactions unrelated to
the sale as needed. The general pattern is that you should avoid
long-lived transactions. A dialog interaction has an unbounded length.
Shane
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