[Zope] ZODB and persistent objects

[David Hassalevris]

Les,

Do a google search on "zope folder properties".  You can use a folder and
add,delete and edit properties with differing data types.

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Les Ferguson" <lhf at xtra.co.nz>
To: "Zope" <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:03 PM
Subject: [Zope] ZODB and persistent objects


> I have searched and read a whole bunch of stuff on ZODB.  Why do all the
> examples I can google for seem to resort to telling us how to implement
> ZODB externally from Zope?  Where is some good old fashioned example
> code for implementing a simple collection of objects within Zope?
>
> I want to keep a small collection of data, the last 10 customer id's
> that were viewed/updated, with a timestamp and maybe a brief name field.
>   This collection will be managed by an object that can do, eg.
>    recentCust.Add(Customer_id, BriefName)
>    recentCust.GetList()
> I thought rather than poking this small dataset into MySQL, I could just
> keep it in ZODB as a queue-type collection of data.
>
> What is the best approach for achieving this?  Do I create a folder and
> store persistent objects in it of some kind, or are there more suitable
> built-in queue classes or dictionary type features already in the Zope
API?
>
> -- 
> Les Ferguson
> Software developer
> Waitakere, NZ
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