[Zope] Object reference and the _SetObject() method
Johan Carlsson
johanc@torped.se
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 01:08:54 +0200
> >
> > Nothing. Just because the Zope management interface uses a hierarchical
> > structure, doesn't mean that every object cannot be referenced
> more then once.
> >
>
> Thats correct. And I believe some objects are in fact referenced more than
> once. But be careful if you are using objects that do not conform to Zope
> management interface. I had one bad experience where I created a lot of
> instances of a custom persistent object and added them onto standard Zope
> objects using an external method. Later some bugs in my object source
> corrupted the whole ZODB. Jim Fulton pointed politely that I souldn't do
> such bad things, but I think he was just too polite.
>
> As it turned out you didn't have such bad thinks in mind.
Thanks, I'm all excited now :-)
//johan