[Zope-dev] Soft links again

[Ibaņez Palomar Juan David]

> 
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Ibaņez Palomar Juan David wrote:
> 
> > It would be great if the symbolic link could have a different id than
> > the object referenced. But with the __of__ based solution "link.id" is
> > always "referenced_object.id".
> > 
> > How this could be done?
> 
> I think you'd need a special kind of wrapper.  It would have the
> ability to act as if it were the object itself while transparently
> overriding specific attributes.  I've pondered creating such
> a wrapper before, but it crashed so much that I eventually moved on to
> easier stuff. :-)
> 
> I think the ability is all there in ExtensionClass, but the details are
> quite difficult.
> 
> Shane
> 

If I've understanded it right it means I must go to C risking my mental
sanity (1), other possibility would be to redesign/reimplement my app (2).
Ummhh... I think I'll try 1, it seems more entertaining :), so wish me luck.

thanks,
david