[Zope] Question about application design

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:28:04PM -0700, Alec Mitchell wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 11:39 am, Robb Shecter wrote:
> > I just discovered the TransientObject.  How about I add a Transient
> > Object Container to the temp_folder, which will store my application
> > data?  That looks like it'll work...
> >
> > My data set is read-only, by the way.
> >
> > I also just discovered how easy it is to get access to the SESSION
> > transient object from a python script, and how you can easily use that.
> > Very nice.
> I've never used any transient objects myself.  If your data is read-only and 
> it is associated with a single user session, then it seems almost ideal to 
> store it in the SESSION object. Even if it were mutable you could probably 
> store it there as long as you set _p_changed explicitly when necessary (not 
> possible from a python script though).  Sounds like you are getting pretty 
> deep into Zope rather quickly, enjoy.

Be careful with very heavy use of sessions...
check recent threads from Chris McDonough on the subject,
either here or on the zope-dev list.  There are apparently
some problems that crop up with sessions under heavy load.

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Paul Winkler
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