Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Withers
Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > > Hence the traversal interface? > > Right. Which is due to arrive in 2.2? ;-) Chris ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! **

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-24 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Chris Withers wrote: > Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > > What happens when you have multiple ZODBs? Additionaly, this breaks > > encapsulation between the ZODB and applications built on it, which isn't > > such a good idea. > > Good, it was a stupid question. :-) Not so stupid - I had the sam

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Withers
Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > What happens when you have multiple ZODBs? Additionaly, this breaks > encapsulation between the ZODB and applications built on it, which isn't > such a good idea. Good, it was a stupid question. :-) I guess when you catalog objects, you should make sure you use t

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-24 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Chris Withers wrote: > I hope this is a stupid question but why does ZCatalog use the URL of an > object to uniquely identify it? > > Why not just use a reference to the object? Persistent object > identifiers must exist for the ZODB so why not use them instead? What happens when you have multi