[ZODB-Dev] Navigating inherently hierarchical data

[Chris Withers]

Tommy Li wrote:
> I don't understand how I can use ZODB to do this, however. From what I 
> can gather from reading the manual, if I simply stored variables 
> referring to the parent and children in every TreeNode, I'd end up 
> storing the whole tree of TreeNodes's every time I wanted to store that 
> one TreeNode. (Presumably, because ZODB would follow all the references 
> recursively.)

This won't happen if the classes for your objects inherit from the 
Persistent class.

cheers,

Chris

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