[Zope] Re: Ape backwards

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> [2005.02.14.1323 +0100]:
> >I want to make my exisiting RDB available in Zope, intuitively,
> >automatically, and robustly.
> 
> Yep, that sounds like one of APE's deisgned usecases, and the one
> that most interests me...

That makes two of us.

> >I want records created in the database outside of Zope to show up as
> >objects in Zope automatically. The same applies to deletions.
> 
> Any particular type of Zope object?

An Archetype.

> >However, I am looking to provide folderish objects which can also
> >hold CMF objects.
> 
> I thought you'd be heading there, good luck, I think you'll need
> it!

Argh. I only have a week.

> >So I want a way to associate a folderish Archetype (essentially
> >just a folderish CMF type) with a RDB table so that an instance
> >thereof obtains and manages some of its associated data from/in
> >the RDB.
> 
> That sounds like a question for the Archetypes list, I think they
> have some way to deal with this...

Been there, done that.
No, they don't. :(

http://cvs.ailab.ch/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/external/SQLWindow/

is my current WIP result.

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