[ZODB-Dev] Re: know the state of an object

[Chris Spencer]

Jim Fulton wrote:

> The long term solution to these are other related use cases is to start
> using events in ZODB.  That is, ZODB should use zope.event to report
> happenings of potential interest to applications.  Then applications
> can use the event system to be notified and provide additional
> functionality.

That's a superb idea. I'm currently writing an app that uses pyGTK to 
display data in ZODB. Keeping this display up-to-date is complicated, 
involving nasty hacks using _p_invalidate and volatile data. Anything 
that could simplify this process would be extremely useful.

Chris