[ZODB-Dev] ZEO 2.0a1 release

[Toby Dickenson]

On Friday 31 May 2002 5:02 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

>   TD> 1. It would be nice for a server-side storage to be able to
>   TD>    declare that he
>   TD> has some extra methods that should be proxied from the
>   TD> ClientStorage. That could happen in ZEO1, but only by
>   TD> subclassing everything.
>
> Good idea.

Thinking further, I think doing this properly makes things unnecessarily=20
complicated. But I still need the functionality :-( =20

What about adding this method to the storage interface, with simple proxy=
ing=20
by ZEO, and something appropriate in BaseStorage:

    def signal(signalname, args):
        """Perform some storage-specific operation on the storage,
        not covered by the Storage API.

        signalname is a string name of the operation.=20

        A storage should raise NotImplementedError for all signal
        names that it does not recognise.
        """


Its a hack, but I think a reasonable one. Any thoughts?