On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:58, Carlo Cardelli wrote: > > 1. Register your customer object as a utility and then do utility > > lookups. In this case you can reuse code in > > zope.app.component.vocabulary. > > 2. You probably have a convention where to find customers, like a > > "CustomerContainer". You can setup your application to easily look up > > this container to get the entries. > > Thank you for your answer. In the meantime I made some progress with > containers. > In your opinion, which of these 2 options suits best for a large number > of objects (say, about 100,000 customers)?
Definitely the second one. I would probably just use the name and only "wake up" (access) the object when needed, so that you do not keep loading 100k objects into RAM. > About vocabularies: In another post you say you'd rather use them > instead of sources. As far as I can see, queryable sources seem the main > choice for management of large collections. Example: a user wants to > browse a list of all Customers beginning with "a"; I cannot fill the > HTML page with about 5000 entries, but have to manage "chunks" of > objects in some way. Hence a queryable object is needed. > Am I wrong? Is there a way to tweak vocabularies to support such cases? > Could anyone provide an example of a similar implementation? Note that I > have to use a Relational db, so if I understand well I cannot use > catalogs or similar. If you understand sources, then that's great! Don't unlearn that! It is a personal preference of mine not to use them, because I find them too difficult for my needs. But you clearly outline a need that I do not have, so a source might be exactly what you want. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
