[Grok-dev] thoughts while writing a tutorial

[Kevin Teague]

>
> So now I am busy writing a simple first tutorial on navigation to
> objects that are not persistent in the ZopeDB, but which are created
> on-demand when the user tries to look at them.
>
> Some questions have come up that I need guidance on.
>
>  - What should I call this sort of object?  Several names suggest
>    themselves, but I want to use just one main one through the
>    tutorial:
>
>     "On-demand objects"?
>     "Dynamic objects"?
>     "Non-persistent objects"?
>     "Non-ZopeDB objects"?
>     "Ephemeral objects"?
>     "Transient objects"?
>

They are called Model objects. Any object which provides methods and  
attributes to your Views are Model objects, regardless of whether the  
objects were persisted through the ZODB,  persisted in a relational  
database, or parsed on-demand from a text file you fetched using gopher.

In Martijn's Grok Tutorial in the "A view for a model" section he  
discusses a non-ZODB Model object which has a single method returning  
static data. I would re-read that section of the tutorial for further  
guidance :)

http://grok.zope.org/tutorial.html#models