[Zope] data manager object - seeking comments

[Chris Withers]

How does this compare with Shane's AdaptableStorage?

cheers,

Chris

Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
> Howdy Zopers,
> 
> The last year or so, I've been making extensive use of a drop-in data 
> manager class in my products.  It started off as a caching database 
> connector and at some point I decided it was a better tool without the 
> database layer. :-)
> 
> It was designed to simplify the process of storing, optimizing, and 
> extracting complex (i.e. "Pythonish") data so that it isn't necessary to 
> translate back and forth between OO-style data and SQL-style data.  It's 
> basically a big mapping with recordset caching, selection/aggregation 
> mechanisms, data typing and multi-level sorting built in.
> 
> I wouldn't say it's optimal for *all* kinds of data, but it sure seems 
> to work well at organizing the kind of data you might kick up in a 
> mid-size business app.  My last several apps don't have a scratch of SQL 
> in them anywhere.  :-)
> 
> Anyway, it's my baby so I've lost perspective on it and don't really 
> have any idea whether this is a redundant and/or stupid idea or if this 
> is the kind of thing I should be releasing to the community.  Some 
> comments and perspective on this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Please respond directly & I'll update the list with whether or not I'll 
> be making a release announcement.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any (seriously, any) feedback,
> 
> Dylan
> 
> 
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