[Zope] Re: Triggering the persistence mechanism

[Chris McDonough]

There is nothing that needs to be done here.  It's only if you  
*mutate* values stored in the session that you need to do explicit  
persistence triggering.  I provided an example of doing this in my  
last email.

- C

On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Dennis Allison wrote:

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> Chris McDonnough pointed out a problem with my setSessionVariable
> code which I am now fixing.  I want a generic routine to set a session
> variable whether it is a simple variable, a list, or a dictionary.
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> The question is one of triggering the persistence mechanism.  If a
> dictionary or list is stored in a session variable, what is needed to
> ensure that the setSessionVariable() routine triggers the persistence
> mechanism?
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> Is it adequate to simply read the session variable in the
> setSessionVariable() routine prior to writing it when the session  
> variable
> is a dictionary or list?  Or is something else needed?
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