[Zope] Re: LocalFS w/ annotation data

2000-06-20 Thread Dan L. Pierson
Jonothan Farr writes: That sounds like a mess. LocalDirectory objects are not persistent, they are created each time they are requested. So you'll have nowhere to put your PersistentMappings except in the top-level LocalFS object. Trying to make the LocalDirectories persistent would be

Re: [Zope] Re: LocalFS w/ annotation data

2000-06-20 Thread Jim Sanford
son [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 7:51 AM Subject: [Zope] Re: LocalFS w/ annotation data Jonothan Farr writes: That sounds like a mess. LocalDirectory objects are not persistent, they are created each time they are requested. So you'll have nowhere t

[Zope] Re: LocalFS w/ annotation data

2000-06-20 Thread Jonothan Farr
What about just storing your meta-data in files in the local file system? Then you wouldn't need to modify the LocalFS product at all. Just write a ZClass that can read/write you meta-data file format. Might well be a better approach. I'll think about it. Unfortunately, it doesn't

[Zope] Re: LocalFS w/ annotation data

2000-06-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
BTW: I'm working on associating other annotation data with LocalFS files. My current thinking is to release the result as a separate product, since I can't think of a way to do it that doesn't hack LocalFS sources. Basically, I'm adding a PersistentMapping (from id to arbitrary class) to