I've just checked in a fair bit of re-factoring to try to define
reasonable storage interfaces. The results can be found at:
http://svn.zope.org/ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/interfaces.py?view=auto
and
http://svn.zope.org/ZODB/trunk/src/ZEO/interfaces.py?view=auto
Some notes:
- I added a new tpc_transaction method to allow ZEO to get some
information it needs without groping for _transaction. Storage
servers will still work with storages that don't have this method,
but will log problems. Current storage implementations should add
this method.
- I'm not sure whether history, loadSerial, pack, and registerDB,
should be in IStorage. I have a feeling that packing and other
database-management tasks should be exposed some other way. history
and loadSerial are fairly special, although they can be wildly
useful. (IMO, there should be a history view for all Zope objects
that lets one at least see the transaction history for an object even
if looking at old data isn't supported.) Only very specialized
storages need registerDB AFAICT.
- See my earlier message about getExtensionMethods.
- I was able to retire a poorly documented and understood method that
was only needed by ZEO: loadEx.
- Intentionally included version-support methods from the APIs.
- I arranged that storages that don't support undo or versions don't
need to provide any of the methods.
I cleaned up various other sundry things along the way and identified
some bugs, fixing at least one.
Comments on the APIs are very welcome. Hopefully this will clarify
some things.
One of my text tasks will be to add some documentation about
concurrency requirements.
Jim
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