[Zope-dev] is there a hook for before the transaction is comm itted

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Tim McLaughlin wrote:
> manage_afterChange(oldItems, newItems)
> oldItems: dict of id - values before modifications
> newItems: dict of new values at end of transaction
> 
> This would allow an elegant "reindex" or notification system for objects.
> It would also allow for validation (ie. raise error if you don't like
> newItems).  Anyway, that's it.  I'm halfway there, just can't get a method
> to be called on my object _just_ before commit.

This sounds an awful lot like the way ZPatterns works...

--RDM