[Zope] Re[2]: [Zope] CASE tools and Zope

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:11:20 -0400


ZClasses can indeed be brains.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. David Murray [mailto:bitz@bitdance.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:52 PM
> To: Alexander Chelnokov
> Cc: Dieter Maurer; zope
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Re[2]: [Zope] CASE tools and Zope
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Alexander Chelnokov wrote:
> > As i realize, ZSQL methods are merely SQL statements for data
> > manipulation - select, insert, delete and so on. But some 
> application
> > logic and data integrity rules may be IMHO wrapped into ZClasses
> > instead of triggers and stored procedures. It looks promising for
> 
> I think what you are looking for here is the concept called
> "pluggable brains".  As I understand it (never having used it
> myself), it allows you to wrap the returned results up as instances
> of a python class, thus supplying object logic to your rdbms
> data.  Whether or not ZClasses can play the role of pluggable
> brains I don't know, but I have a feeling they would be overkill
> for that.
> 
> --RDM
> 
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