[Zope-dev] Quickie on ZPatterns ... I promise :)

[Steve Alexander]

Bill Anderson wrote:
> 
> Let's say I have an object I will store in a rack. Let us say I want this object to be
> cataloged in a ZCatalog. Any caveats I need to know about
> ..such as "Don't do that!" ?
> ?;^)=

Make one of the object's base-classes DataSkin.

Don't make it CatalogAware.

Use triggers to index and unindex the object from a catalog. You'll
probably want to store the catalog in Specialist.

By the way, Phillip Eby has released a new development snapshot:

 
http://www.zope.org/Members/pje/ZPatterns/ZPatterns-0-4-1snap1.tgz/view

I'll be trying it later today.

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Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited
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