[Zope-dev] ZCatalog peculiarities?

Phillip J. Eby pje@telecommunity.com
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:47:18 -0500


At 04:52 PM 8/16/99 -0400, Michel Pelletier wrote:
>
>A fix for this is checked in.  useBrains is only called in the __init__,
>__setstate__, addColumn and delColumn.  The circular reference is
>removed.  This should be the correct behavior.  The current brains
>machinery is just a placeholder for the new brains machinery (probably
>in 2.1), which will be based on what ZSQL methods do.  In fact, they
>will probably share the same code and have the added bonus of allowing
>you to select a ZClass as a pluggable brain.  This means you can
>construct a ZClass that defines the objects that get returned by the
>Catalog (or an SQL Method).  This would be pretty cool.

Indeed it would.  And thanks for ending my confusion on these mystical
Catalog matters.  :)