[Zope] Creating a List from a SQLMethod

[Jim Fulton]

Martijn Pieters wrote:
> 
> > If you have cacheing turned on for the query (cache
> > persistence time > time for zope to render page), zope should
> > pull the select
> > items from the cache and not actually rerun the query on the
> > database server. Therefore, the time saved by creating a list to reuse
> > is probably negligible.
> >
> > Also, the way you are doing it results in the list of select
> > items being sent in html multiple times, if the select is a long one
> > this will noticebly slow down the loading speed on the
> > browser for those with slow connections. An alternative would
> > be to create a
> > javascript array once and use a javascript function to create
> > the select lists on the browser to your hearts content.
> 
> Hmm.. I believe that dtml-in, like dtml-var,

You mean "like dtml-in".

> within one DTML
> method/document, caches retrieved names. So on call to dtml-in
> SQL_Method_x will actually call it, and a next reference within a DTML
> method will use a cached copy of that call.

No. The value is cached only within the tag.

Jim

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