[Zope] Volatile Properties in ZClasses?

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Tom Schwaller wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Take a look at the BannerAd ZClass:
> (http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/BannerFolder)
> 
> Updating the "hits"-property when the banner 
> is loaded, has the effect, that the
> Banner-Object is backuped by the Zope magic,
> which is quite annyoing when having a high-traffic 
> site. So, how can one generate volatile properties,
> which do not get backuped (I tried it whith _hits,

At this point my suggestion would be to store them in an external file.
I hope soon there would be a solution in terms of incorporating different
ZODB stores into ZODB that do not keep version info.

If someone has a better (and easy) alternative, I would like to know about
it too.

Pavlos