[Zope] Object reference and the _SetObject() method

Johan Carlsson johanc@torped.se
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 01:08:54 +0200


> > 
> > Nothing. Just because the Zope management interface uses a hierarchical 
> > structure, doesn't mean that every object cannot be referenced 
> more then once.
> > 
> 
> Thats correct. And I believe some objects are in fact referenced more than
> once. But be careful if you are using objects that do not conform to Zope
> management interface. I had one bad experience where I created a lot of
> instances of a custom persistent object and added them onto standard Zope
> objects using an external method. Later some bugs in my object source
> corrupted the whole ZODB. Jim Fulton pointed politely that I souldn't do
> such bad things, but I think he was just too polite.
> 
> As it turned out you didn't have such bad thinks in mind. 

Thanks, I'm all excited now :-)
//johan