automatic (un-)pickling / overwriting self

[John J Lee]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Alex Martelli wrote:

> Clemens Hermann wrote:
[...]
> > while working on a cgi-admin interface i got a little problem with
> > pickle.
> > I use a hierarchical class structure to keep users, permissions, etc.
> > As the amount of data is quite small i just pickle the top class
> > instance that references the rest.
>
> So far so good...
>
> > I am looking for a way to automatically pickle the top class whenever
> > one of the referenced object changes.
>

Sounds like what you *think* you want would be ZODB.

> That's pretty hard indeed, to put it mildly; you'd basically have
> to wrap every "referenced object" into the Observed side of an
> Observed/Observer patter, catch EVERY change (a VERY tall order
> indeed, with the amount of indirections being unbounded) and do
> a callback to the top-class Observer.

... or use ZODB.

Actually, what you *really* may be something like Zope or webware.

(caveat: not entirely sure I understand what you mean by cgi-admin
interface).


John