[Zope3-dev] TTW Schema-based content types

Steve Alexander steve@z3u.com
Mon, 04 Aug 2003 19:32:31 +0300


> Once we have a schema, it should be easy to create a content type
> based on the schema. There should be a class with __getattr__,
> __setattr__ and __delattr__ that uses the schema to provide data
> management.  I suggest that these TTW schema should have the property
> that each field should have a unique id.  The content class should
> use the ids, rather than the field names to manage data.  That way,
> fields can be renamed without messing up existing instances.

These concerns are met, but implemented in a different way, with the 
schemagen code that Martijn Faassen and I worked on in December.

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Steve Alexander