[Zope] Conflict Errors

[Chris McDonough]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thursday 01 November 2001 17:00, Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> I've been looking into the standard setstate() method of Connection - and I 
> have a couple of questions:
> 
>  1. where is _invalid defined? I grepped the Zope source, and can't find it 
> anywhere. I'm curious as to the meaning of _invalid(None).

Why of course it's the has_key method of the Connection's _invalidated 
attribute (see Conenction's __init__ method)! Remember, this is Jim 
Fulton code.  ;-)

>  2. _p_independent is a very interesting little method. It's only used in one 
> place, as far as I can tell (BTrees/Length.py). If it truly did do what it 
> says it's supposed to do - state that an object doesn't affect or rely on 
> other objects, then you'd be able to tack a _p_independent() returning 1 onto 
> your classes that use LowConflictConnection. I think. As it is, it seems that 
> it's only checked for the latter statement - that the object doesn't care 
> about the state of other objects.

Sorry Richard, I don't understand that question?

> Hrm. I think I'll stop delving into the ZODB. I'm starting to get bad 
> feelings.

Creepy, huh?
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