[Zope3-checkins] CVS: Zope3/src/zope/app/fssync - syncer.py:1.25

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Update of /cvs-repository/Zope3/src/zope/app/fssync
In directory cvs.zope.org:/tmp/cvs-serv1558

Modified Files:
	syncer.py 
Log Message:
ramble about an appearant limitation of how we serialize annotations


=== Zope3/src/zope/app/fssync/syncer.py 1.24 => 1.25 ===
--- Zope3/src/zope/app/fssync/syncer.py:1.24	Mon Jun  9 14:48:52 2003
+++ Zope3/src/zope/app/fssync/syncer.py	Fri Jul 18 00:18:25 2003
@@ -118,6 +118,17 @@
         annotation_dir = os.path.join(annotation_dir, name)
         if not os.path.exists(annotation_dir):
             os.mkdir(annotation_dir)
+
+        # XXX This doesn't allow an interface that's implemented as an
+        # adapter that uses annotations to store data to affect the
+        # serialized representation of the data.  Case in point: the
+        # IAnnotatable --> ZopeDublinCore adapter
+        # (zope.app.dublincore.annotatableadapter.ZDCAnnotationAdapter)
+        # uses a PersistentDict as the storage format, but could
+        # benefit by storing the data as RDF encoded in XML (for
+        # example).  Perhaps marker interfaces could be used on in
+        # PersistentDict instance to support this?
+
         for key in annotations:
             annotation = annotations[key]
             toFS(annotation, key, annotation_dir)