Oooooh, a very good idea indeed! We'll have to look at that eventually. The mechanism you describe is preferable, but it should be noted that subversion properties are easily accessible using the clients.
So long as said properties are human readable/writable, that's also an option. The main issue for me (And many others I suppose), is the fact that every single object type I use is either completely custom, or a monkey patched version of a built-in type (Notably OFS.Image for instance). So there would have to be a reliable serializer for "other" objects, which I beleive you already have, so that's OK :) What happens is you write a new serializer, notably write a custom serializer for an object type you've already been using for a while, using the "default" one ? (Presumably because you WANT to be able to access the contents from other tools) I think I noticed that somewhere in the .properties file there was a note of the class used for serializing ... Is there a way for a serialized instance to remember which serializer was used ? Or does everything break when I change the definition of a serializer (Old instances can no longer be read) ? J.F. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14/04/2004 7:39 PM Subject: RE: Zope + Ape + Subversion (was: RE: [Zope-dev] Using a truely r evis ion based storage for Zope ?) On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fact is if one wanted a client to interact with a svn repository that stores > zope objects, it would need to be fairly specifically designed for it ... > How would a client (Say dreamweaver with a subversion plug-in) know that > when editing an image, the x and y size properties need to be updated ? What > if someone monkey patches the image type to add some other > property/attribute ? I would say Ape is quite good at accepting data from non-Zope-aware tools, and I'd like to make it better. The fact that Ape stores the image dimensions separately from the image content is an implementation decision in the serializer. You could instead tell the serializer to detect image dimensions when loading the object. The detection is a relatively inexpensive operation. Shane _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
