[ZODB-Dev] trigger loading a Persistent's attributes

[Simon Burton]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:00:33 +0100
"Dieter Maurer" <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:

> 
> Simon Burton wrote at 2007-1-27 15:18 -0800:
> >
> >I have a Persistent object, however, its attributes only
> >get loaded from the storage when I request a specific attribute.
> >Problem is, I don't know the names of the attributes 
> >necessarily. I was trying to just query the __dict__ but
> >this does not trigger a load. Is there another way to do this ?
> 
> Accessing (almost) any attribute (even a non existing one) will load
> the object. There are a few exceptions: attributes starting with "_p_"
> or "_v_".
> 

Yes. I looked at the dir function, it seems that when it accesses the "__members__"
attribute this triggers a load.

This is ZODB-fu. So be it.

Simon.