On 8/22/08, Andrew Milton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +-------[ David Bear ]---------------------- > > | It seems to me that it could be usefull to have a zope method for passing > | python pickles to external processes through a unix domain socket. My > thinking > | was to use this as a means to abstract a data base connection. Yes, I > know > | there are zsql methods, sqlalchemy and other products to do this. But my > | thought was to have a generilzed method for just passing a pickle to an > | external process that could do anything with it. Perhaps it could pass a > pickle > | to a queue that would handle the pickle if the site need some high volume > | handling of data. > | > | Then one could have another python process listening on the socket -- > ready to > | receive pickles for zope. > > > Isn't this called ZEO? d8) > > ZEO could be a model for this - but ZEO stores the pickles to zodb. What if I wanted to queue the pickle up and take some kind of long term processing action on it? Store it in a network file system -- which may have a high write latency to, put it in a data base for which there were no zope connectors, etc.
-- David Bear College of Public Programs at ASU 602-464-0424
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