[ZODB-Dev] Changing namespace - best strategy

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:54:55PM +0200, Pedro Ferreira wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> > 1. Make sure all the classes are still importable from the old location
> >    ('from newmodule import MyPersistentSomething # BBB')
> 
> So, I assume this is based on the classFactory hook/dictionary solution?
> Or am I misunderstanding it?

No, this is based on ZODB's use of pickles.  The database stores the
fully-qualified name of the module and class of each object, so if you
make the classes importable using the old module and class name, the
objects can still be loaded.

Marius Gedminas
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