Marius Gedminas a écrit :
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:40:06PM +0200, Christophe Combelles wrote:
While fixing some bugs in zope.app.container,
I've also modified the implementation of the BTreeContainer,
by not inheriting from the SampleContainer, and directly accessing the
btree. This had remained as a TODO in the btree.py file, so I did it,
but...
The result is all previous persisted BTreeContainers (such as
PrincipalFolder) are broken because the btree used to be stored in
self._SampleContainer__data, while the new implementation stores it in
self._BTreeContainer__data.
So I've added a property to offer a transparent backward compatibility:
def _get__data(self):
try:
return self._BTreeContainer__data
except:
Please do not use bare except clauses. Replace this with
except AttributeError:
return self._SampleContainer__data
def _set__data(self, value):
try:
self._BTreeContainer__data = value
except:
When could this ever fail?
self._SampleContainer__data = value
def _del_data(self):
try:
del self._BTreeContainer__data
except:
del self._SampleContainer__data
Do we need __del__ at all?
__data = property(_get__data, _set__data, _del_data)
Do you think it is safe?
Not if you want compatibility in both directions. If you want databases
created with the new zope.app.container to be readable with the old
zope.app.container (consider, e.g. a developer using a sandbox and
switching between bleeding-edge development and old maintenance
branches), then you can't do this.
Is there any better solution for this?
Perhaps a __setstate__ method to rename the attribute? See the
PersistentMapping class in persistent/mapping.py for an example.
Should I
rather write an evolution script?
*loathes*
Or should I revert all this back to
inheriting from SampleContainer?
Or you could do like Benji York suggested and always use the
backwards-compatible name _SampleContainer__data.
thanks for the suggestions! I will do what Benji told, this seems the safest
solution, and will allow to backport it to the 3.5 branch, so that the btree
length calculation could also be fixed in zope 3.4.
Christophe
(Why oh why did SampleContainer want to use a double underscored name?)
Marius Gedminas
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