[ZODB-Dev] zodb pickle format for root
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Fri Jan 20 13:00:19 EST 2006
Florent Guillaume wrote:
> In storage.py there's a comment saying that only a few types of pickles
> for the class descriptions are written, even if more are read.
> But actually in DB.py there's this code that creates a new root if oid
> z64 doesn't exist:
>
> root = PersistentMapping()
> ...
> p.dump((root.__class__, None))
> p.dump(root.__getstate__())
>
> This is actually format #5 and according to serialize.py it's not used
> anymore for writing. I guess the root is an exception.
>
> I haven't checked if just justing p.dump(root.__class__) works but it
> should.
This is just a fossil. Feel free to change it if you wish.
Or to add an entry to the ZODB collector.
Jim
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