[ZODB-Dev] Adopting ZODB

[David Binger]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Chris S wrote:

> On 7/13/06, David Binger <dbinger at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Chris S wrote:
>>
>> > I don't think this is the case. Consider my simple example  
>> below. None
>> > of my classes inherit Persistent, and even though I set  
>> _p_changed =
>> > 1, nothing's persisted.
>>
>> In your example, it seems like there is a missing
>> root['bob'] = User('bob')
>> transaction.commit()
>> to get things started.
>
> That would overwrite my User with a new instance each run, defeating
> the purpose of persistence.
>
> The line:
> parent = root.get(parentName, User(parentName))
> initializes things if the user was not yet created.
>
> Chris

Okay, but the thing that is missing is any assignment to the root  
instance
or any instance of Persistent.
I think that is necessary.