Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Chris Withers wrote: > > Bill Anderson wrote: > > What happens when the object is in multiple racks? > > (Assuming it is possible) > > Then it'll be missing if something tries to get it from a rack. The same > thing as would happen if something tried to get it from a single rack > after it'd bee

Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Scott Parish wrote: > Another thought i just had was that if you deleted by placing a call to the > Rack, then you couldn't allow the class to override manage_delete. You might > want to do such (overriding) if you wanted it to clean up a catalog or perform > some other auxiliary function before

Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Bill Anderson wrote: > What happens when the object is in multiple racks? > (Assuming it is possible) Then it'll be missing if something tries to get it from a rack. The same thing as would happen if something tried to get it from a single rack after it'd been deleted. So this case should be cove

Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Thus spake Chris Withers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Scott Parish wrote: > > I'm not entirely clear how > > asking the object to delete itself in this case is going to improve the > > situation over just asking the rack to, but I think that was the intent. > > Okay, I see the intent now too, but I ag

Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Chris Withers wrote: > > Scott Parish wrote: > > I'm not entirely clear how > > asking the object to delete itself in this case is going to improve the > > situation over just asking the rack to, but I think that was the intent. > > Okay, I see the intent now too, but I agree with you that I can

Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Scott Parish wrote: > I'm not entirely clear how > asking the object to delete itself in this case is going to improve the > situation over just asking the rack to, but I think that was the intent. Okay, I see the intent now too, but I agree with you that I can't see what advantage asking the obj

Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Thus spake Chris Withers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ty Sarna wrote: > > call the manage_delete() method on the object. That is, you ask the > > object to delete itself. > > This seems unnecessarily long-winded to me. What are the reasons for it > being like this? (examples are good... ;-) > > > How

Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Ty Sarna wrote: > call the manage_delete() method on the object. That is, you ask the > object to delete itself. This seems unnecessarily long-winded to me. What are the reasons for it being like this? (examples are good... ;-) > However, once you have the object, operations on the object should

Re: [Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

In article , Jeff Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, search as I might, I cannot figure out how to delete an item > once it's been created. On gut instinct, I figured there would be a > deleteItem() to complement the newItem() method. No

[Zope] ZPatterns: Deleting objects from a Rack?

Ok, I have a stupid question. I have succeeded in creating a ZClass (a subclass of DataSkin) and instantiating a few instances in the defaultRack of my Specialist using my Specialist's newItem() method. Rock. However, search as I might, I cannot figure out how to delete an item once it's been cr