[Zope3-dev] zwiki: performance of findChildren()

[Max M]

Shane Hathaway wrote:

> I wouldn't introduce a true hierarchy into Wikis, either.
>
> Instead, to satisfy both needs (simplicity and scaleability), Wikis 
> should depend on an external component that keeps track of Wiki 
> structure.  The simple version of the component should store Wiki 
> structure information as annotations on Wiki pages.  The scaleable 
> version should either build an index, cache, or rely on an object hub 
> in some way.  I might call this the "Wiki page relationship" service.  
> This service should be notified of every change to a Wiki page.  This 
> service should  answer any useful query about the relationship between 
> Wiki pages.
>
> FWIW, ZWiki for Zope 2 seemed to progress in a direction similar to 
> this.  Instead of figuring out their own parentage, ZWiki pages 
> delegate relationship computations to a temporary class instance.  The 
> difference I'm suggesting is that the relationship manager should be a 
> configurable, persistent component instead of a temporary instance of 
> a fixed class. 


Please look at::

    http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/productList/mxmRelations

Which could easily do this.

regards Max M