[Zope-dev] Infuriating ZClass registry Heisenbug

[Shane Hathaway]

On 12/12/2002 12:30 PM, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> >>>>>"SH" == Shane Hathaway  writes:
>
>
>   SH> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Evan Simpson wrote:
>   >> I think I've fixed my ZGlobals, but there's definitely a problem
>   >> in coptimizations.  I made Connections.py use the Python
>   >> persistent_id, restarted twice, and ZGlobals was fine on the
>   >> second restart.
>
>   SH> Ah-ha, you now have a reproducible test case.  The
>   SH> coptimizations code has been undergoing "beautification" lately;
>   SH> apparently this particular ZClass-related functionality was not
>   SH> retained correctly.  This ought to be a priority for Zope 2.6, I
>   SH> think.
>
> Evan,
>
> Can you give me a recipe from reproducing the problem?  Ideally, we'd
> write a little unit test that verified that the persistent_id code
> handled ZClass properly.


FYI: I made such a test and fixed the bug.  Details here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=653356&group_id=15628&atid=315628

Shane