[Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.7 and objects turning into None

[Richard Jones]

On Saturday 21 February 2004 06:04, Casey Duncan wrote:
> This is indeed possible. getObject swallows all errors and returns None
> when one occurs. This would make it return None on busy systems if the
> traversal during getObject raised a read ConflictError.

This would indeed result in the behaviour I was seeing.


> I consider this a bug and I will look into what the *real* desired
> semantics are. I've been bitten myself by this in applications which
> naively assumed getObject would always return a Zope object.

You say "naively", I say "rightly". I could be wrong though :)


> For Zope 2.8 it might be reasonable to consider also making the case
> where accessing objects that have been removed without uncataloging is
> also an exception.

I think this is a good policy.


     Richard
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