On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Julian Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I guess the question is, does allmembers have to be a property? It sounds > like it needs to be a method to me.
Well, allmembers isn't the problem: its the other properties that are the problem :). If we make them all into methods so that you have to ask for them directly, then the API will be fast, but the equivalent web page may still be slow if it actually has to call the methods because of what its showing. Handwaving: I'd like to have a flexible way of saying "I need these attributes (x, y,z) of the members of this collection (some-GenericCollection-subclass)" and have all the needed related sql expressions banged on automatically, then delivered as a result set of the right objects, with those related things precached. Short term, doing what code does and manually decorating with a caching object may be the only sane way forward - we can probably make that pretty programmer efficient with some care; long term - well, see the handwaving, and I have some BigPicture ideas about how we talk to persistent storage etc which may be interesting to pursue, but not until we've got the fundamentals pinned down: scalability, responsiveness, transparency in our production environment. -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
