[ZPT] ZPT thread-safety

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Tue May 10 13:19:48 EDT 2005


Sasa Milosavljevic wrote at 2005-5-9 20:55 +0000:
>I developing a zope application as Zope product.
>My GUI is based on ZPT.
>All page templates are instances of PageTemplateFile class,
>and all of them are  class attributes of product classes.
>So in one time  many threads from thread pool may work with same ZPT 
>instance.
>Are zpt instances  as class attributes thread-safe solution?

Yes.

While they may write to their attributes (which may in general be a problem),
these attributes are only used as a cache. If a different thread
perform the same write, it missed an optimization but otherwise
nothing bad happened.

-- 
Dieter


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