[Zope] Updating object's modification timestamp?

[Alexander Staubo]

So in order trigger a "modification" I actually have to go modify a
dummy property? Okay. For now I'll "touch" pages by calling
manage_changeProperties() on some dummy property, but in the long run
this isn't good enough.

I suggest adding a touch() method that lets you update the time stamp
programmatically. Why? Well, in my case I have a front page which uses
an SQL database for news, articles, and various things. Whenever an
editor posts an article (through a Zope-built management interface), the
front page should be "touched"; otherwise Zope will give the wrong
Last-Modified date to the browser, and all users will see is the old
page. Of course, I could just succumb to a fit of laziness and set
Cache-Control: no-cache and forget all about it, but I think caching is
a good thing.

--
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
"It has taken the planet Earth 4.5 billion years to discover it is
4.5 billion years old." --George Wald

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:Brian@digicool.com]
>Sent: 22. juni 1999 18:23
>To: 'Alexander Staubo'; Zope Mailing List (E-mail)
>Subject: RE: [Zope] Updating object's modification timestamp?
>
>
>> Is there any way of updating an object's modification timestamp
>> (_p_mtime or bobobase_modification_time(), from what I
>gather from the
>> sources) programmatically through Python? How?
>
>Sure - just modify the object ;) The modification time reflects
>the last time the object was actually modified in the db, and
>is _depended on_ by the database, so you should not try to
>modify it yourself...
>
>Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
>Software Engineer  540.371.6909
>Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com
>
>