[Zope] Adding transactional awareness to filesystem operations

[Dieter Maurer]

Ian Bicking wrote at 2003-10-31 13:33 -0600:
 > I'm working on a CMS written in Zope, which uses static publishing.  So 
 > we write files out to disk frequently.
 > 
 > The transactional safety of Zope is nice (rolling back ZODB and 
 > database changes when an error happens).  Unfortunately any disk 
 > operations we do don't get rolled back, causing inconsistencies.  I 
 > figure I have to change our file-writing external methods so that there 
 > a commit/rollback, which isn't too hard.  Having written these 
 > functions, how do I register them with Zope?  How do I identify the 
 > separate, concurrent transactions?

Look at "Shared/DC/ZRDB/TM.py" ("TransactionManager") and
how it is used in (e.g.) database adapters.

-- 
Dieter