[Zope-dev] using persistent storage inside Zope

[Martijn Pieters]

At 22:31 20/09/99 , Adam Feuer wrote:
>michel,
>   thanks for the help! i think i am still missing something, though--
>if it's a hack, it's because i don't know what i'm doing! :-) :-)
>
>   i would like to make this a Zope object, but... how do i make a Zope
>object from inside of Zope...? specifically, what i think i need to do
>at the time my product is initialized, i need to check for this
>storage object, and if doesn't exist, create it. (this would be in the
>__init__.py file for the product, i think.)
>
>   then, when instances of my product are created, i want them to be
>able to add data to this storage object. how do they know where the
>storage object is, and how do they call its methods...??
>
>   please excuse me if these are elementary questions, i'm pretty new
>to working with Zope.

Just use acquisition. You give your object the id Foo, then you can address 
it with self.Foo (or just Foo in DTML).


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