[ZODB-Dev] Adopting ZODB

[Chris S]

On 7/13/06, David Binger <dbinger at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Chris S wrote:
>
> > I don't think this is the case. Consider my simple example below. None
> > of my classes inherit Persistent, and even though I set _p_changed =
> > 1, nothing's persisted.
>
> In your example, it seems like there is a missing
> root['bob'] = User('bob')
> transaction.commit()
> to get things started.

That would overwrite my User with a new instance each run, defeating
the purpose of persistence.

The line:
parent = root.get(parentName, User(parentName))
initializes things if the user was not yet created.

Chris