[ZODB-Dev] Adopting ZODB

[Christian Theune]

David Binger wrote:
> 
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Chris S wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> You can always persist (almost) any object, even if it does not subclass
>>> from Persistent. However, any changes to the object will not be detected
>>> automatically and you would have to either a) reassign the object to the
>>> ZODB or b) mark it as changed using _p_changed()
>>>
>>> Christian
>>
>> 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.

In any case he is still right: If it doesn't inherit from Persistent, 
then _p_changed doesn't matter. What you would have to do is do 
_p_changed on the "parent" object which inherits Persistent. At least if 
I'm not mistaken again.

Christian

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