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Hi Gary,
Gary Poster wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2005, at 6:20 AM, Julien Anguenot wrote:
>> I would like to order the before commit hooks on a transaction by being
>> able to specify an order for a subscriber at registration time. For the
>> moment, they are called in the order they've been registred.
>
>
> I like this idea, and was just idly wishing for it this morning.
>
:)
>> The order argument could be an integer with a default value to 0 added
>> to the registration method.
>
>
> I usually like the word 'priority' for this sort of value, rather than
> 'order'. To me 'order' implies unique value--i.e., with 'order' I am
> mildly surprised to learn that two entries may have the same order. I
> am not surprised that two entries may share a priority.
right. The "order" wording is present in Zope3 for the same behavior and
that's actually why I proposed this just to stay consistent with Zope3.
But yeah you're right about the meaning. I like better "priority" in
this case as well.
>
> If negative values are acceptable then a default value of 0 is OK by me.
>
yup was thinking about negative values as well.
>> We could just insert the subscriber wihin the queue according to this
>> order parameter if found *or* sorting the queue according to this
>> parameter before flushing the queue and calling the hooks.
>
>
> I think it would be ideal if before commit hooks with the same priority
> continue to be in the order in which they were added.
+1 with this.
> There are a
> number of ways to accomplish this and I expect you can choose a very
> reasonable one :-)
right ;)
J.
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