[Zope-dev] Re: Read-only root database doesn't work ... bug or feature?

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 03:59:21PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
> > Paul Winkler wrote:
> (snip)
> > >I have not yet found exactly how Formulator triggers a commit,
> > >but it is definitely something called by its initialize() function.
> > 
> > It is probably trying to do the Right Thing (TM) by registering with the 
> > help system.  The fact that the help system writes to the database is a 
> > wart the size of my foot.
> 
> Good thought, but practically everything else does that too, and 
> Formulator's the only one that triggers this issue.
> 
> I've tracked it further to Formulator.FieldRegistry.initializeFieldForm()
> but I don't grok what that's doing yet, only just started looking
> at it...
 
OK, it creates three instances of Formulator.Form.BasicForm,
which is persistent; and it writes to all three.

I don't really grok why these three need to be persistent,
that smells funny since these are recreated on every restart.
I'll take it up with the author.

Thanks everybody.

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Paul Winkler
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