[Zope-DB] Can I manipulate a recordset returned by ZSQL-method?

Herbert Sitz hsitz@nwlink.com
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:38:30 -0700


Hello.  I posted a message a week or so ago about whether it was possible to
use ADO to access data sources from within Zope, and haven't gotten any
responses.  I guess I should have asked HOW it was possible, since I'm sure
there's some way to do it; I just don't have enough experience and am not a
good enough programmer to figure it out.

My main reason for wanting to use ADO is to gain access to and manipulate
the records returned from a ZSQL method.  I know that the results of a ZSQL
method are transitory; they exist only long enough to feed the info for
output via the webserver and then they're gone.  But there has to be some
way to capture the results and manipulate them with Python code.

I'm thinking that this would be useful, for example,  to use a pointer that
could be positioned at a specific record of a table.  This could be used to
have a single record form that used navigation buttons to move forward and
backward through the recordset.  Obviously, it could be useful for many
other things, too.

I though having an ADO connection would be useful for me, since most of my
work is done in MS Access and SQL Server, and for other databases I would
just use ODBC layered through OLEDB and ADO.

I'm starting to live with the fact that nobody can help me with ADO.

But isn't there some way to do this with the Python DB drivers?  Don't they
basically allow you to create recordset objects and manipulate them in much
the same way as ADO does (albeit more limited)?

I would really appreciate any help on this.   Even if it's just to say it's
really not feasible right now and give up on my idea until someone develops
a simple way to do it.  I'm just learning Zope and am really excited about
it.  Unfortunately I still need somebody to help me learn the ropes.

Thanks,

Herb Sitz
Seattle, WA