Re: [elephant-devel] Metaclass documentation

[Ian Eslick]

I'm in the middle of writing that section now. I'll be sure to document the lifecycle. An instance is only initialized, I believe, when it is not cached (i.e. if the UID is not in the cache, it then creates a new instance) so on any given access you cannot guarantee that it will or won't undergo initialization. This can be challenging to think through with regards to :transient slots.

Ian

On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Pierre THIERRY wrote:

Just a thought about 1.0:


like the fact that an object goes through its initialization each time
it is deserialized.

When initialization of an object has side effects, that can be
problematic...

Quickly,
Pierre
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one thing that is absolutely needed is a comprehensive documentation of the persistent metaclass. Some of its behaviour can be quite unexpected,

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