[Zope] Transactions in Zope?

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:00:52 +0100


Bruce Eckel writes:
 > I am creating an external method that makes a folder, creates a
 > dtml method in that folder, and then sends an email message. If any
 > of these operations fail, I'd like to "roll back" to the state
 > before the method was called. I think I heard that zope has
 > transactions of some kind, and I'm making mods to the ZODB in my
 > external method, so is there a magic piece of code that would roll
 > everything back?
As far as I know, sending mail is not yet transaction controlled.

There is a proposal to change this and a long thread in the (I think
zope-dev) mailing list archives.


Dieter