[Zope-dev] Patching object class

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:56:26PM +0200, Florent Guillaume wrote:
| I have the need to "update" some persistent objects in a ZODB to change 
| their class.
| 
| One use case comparable to the one I have would be to change all objects 
| of type Folder to OrderedFolder.
| To do that, I envisionned finding all thoses objects and doing
| 
|   ob.__class__ = OrderedFolder
|   ob._p_changed = 1
| 
| Would this work ?
| 
| If not, what other hack could I do ? The idea being that I don't want to 
| recreate all the objects.

You need something like this:

http://cvs.zope.org/Products/ZopeOrg-NV/Extensions/change_modules.py?rev=1.2&cvsroot=Zope.org&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

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