Hi all, I've run into an interesting issue. I've been building an application in zope3 over the last few months to meet a business need where I work. Basically just capturing a lot of data about prospective insurance agencies, creating applications for them, pdfing them (reportlab rocks), and emailing the responsible parties, archiving the applications, etc.
the issue is though that as the business community comes back to me with changes, there are cases where the object design itself needs to be modified. Things that were Textline's need to be Lists, etc, as they determine that they would like to capture extra values for similar data, and what have you. obviously it's not a problem for just modifying the objects for all of them going forward, but for all old data and archived applications, I need to update the old objects to fit the new interfaces. as an example, the original design spec only allowed for one agency owner. it was a Textline. they then asked to be able to have multiple owners, in the case of a partnership. I would, of course, then change "owner" to "owners" and make it a List, and modify the relevant bits in the rest of the code. but all the old applications will just have a single "owner" Textline as that particular attribute for the class. I need to be able to go through the old applications, find all instances of "owner", create "owners" in the stored object, and make the original "owner" a single element in the new list. my issue is how to do this offline in the zodb. I've read through the posts I can find on manipulating the zodb, but I haven't really "gotten" it, and a lot of what i can find is zope2 stuff... my knowledge of the zodb isn't extensive, so the zope2 info may still be good? if anyone has links or recommendations on where to look to start doing this kind of thing, that would be excellent, as would any advice on do's and don't's. as this application lives in our environment, changes to the design will inevitably create this issue time and again, so I'd like to know how to confront changes like this in a workable way. Thanks! -- "All guilt is relative, loyalty counts, and never let your conscience be your guide." - Lucas Buck, American Gothic _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users