On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Christian Theune wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 15:22 +0100, Chris Withers wrote: >> Christian Theune wrote: >>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 15:06 +0100, Chris Withers wrote: >>>> Christian Theune wrote: >>>>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 09:51 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >>>>>> 2. I doubt that blobs have been factored into ZODB exports. >>>>>> This is, >>>>>> obviously, an oversight. >>>>> They were factored in and we have tests. However, the initial >>>>> pickle >>>>> will empty them: copying blobs this way including their content >>>>> isn't >>>>> currently supported. >>>> That doesn't sound like "factored in" to me, that sounds like >>>> bodged and >>>> ignored ;-) >>> >>> No. I was pointing out that Jeff first does a pickle and then the >>> export. *His* pickle breaks it. The export works: it exports the >>> (then >>> empty) blob. >> >> What should he have done to get the blob to export as expected? > > Again: blobs export as expected. > > However, Jeff pickles/unpickles the subtree to get rid of the > '__parent__' attribute. This and blobs' inability to get copied around > in this specific manner make him end up with empty blobs. > > From the export mechanism's perspective he simply exported an empty > blob. If the blob had data it would be there.
Ah, cool. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
