[Zope-dev] RFC: RelationAware class for relations betweenobjects

[Shane Hathaway]

Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
>> Do you agree with these requirements and minimal use cases?  Is there 
>> anything I need to clarify?
> 
> 
> What about making relationships among pre-existing objects that were not 
> designed with relationships in mind?

Ah yes, that is important for Zope, especially Zope 3.  Let me see if I 
can invent a use case.  You have a bunch of Job objects in a JobBoard. 
As it stands, Jobs have no relationships with Users, but now you want to 
relate Jobs to Users.  You want to ask some component for all Users who 
have indicated interest in a particular Job.  You also want to ask some 
component for all Jobs that are particular User is interested in.  You 
want to do this without modifying the code for Job or User, since you do 
not have control over either codebase.

Does that use case capture your intent?

Shane