[Zope] [ADVANCED] How do YOU guys do many-to-many in Zope without relational?

[Max M]

> From: Casey Duncan [mailto:c.duncan@nlada.org]

> They way to do this is to create a lines property in the student
> and store
> the ids of the related subjects there. You use a ZCatalog and a
> keyword index
> on this property to quickly find which students belong to which subject.

Again only if the id's are unique all over the site.

> 2. Assign another fixed key as a property (or general attribute) of the
> subject for use as the unique identifier and don't ever change it for the
> life of the object.

There allready exist such a key for each object in the ZODB called the oid,
but I don't think that it's easy to get at through normal means. I am not
even shure that it's "allowed" to use it for anything.

> You will need to use a ZCatalog to make
> lookups on this
> id efficient, but this would allow you to put the object anywhere
> you like,
> and rename them without screwing up the relationships. Only
> deletion would
> break it.

Deletion always has a tendency to do this. I need triggers in the ZODB :-)

regards Max M


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