ZODB/ZEO Programming Guide

Author:A.M. Kuchling Date:January 13, 2010

©Copyright 2002 A.M. Kuchling. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the appendix entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

Contents

• Introduction
  • What is the ZODB?
  • OODBs vs. Relational DBs
  • What is ZEO?
  • About this guide
  • Acknowledgements
• ZODB Programming
  • Installing ZODB
  • How ZODB Works
  • Opening a ZODB
  • Using a ZODB Configuration File
  • Writing a Persistent Class
  • Rules for Writing Persistent Classes
  • Writing Persistent Classes
• ZEO
  • How ZEO Works
  • Installing ZEO
  • Testing the ZEO Installation
  • ZEO Programming Notes
  • Sample Application: chatter.py
• Transactions and Versioning
  • Committing and Aborting
  • Subtransactions
  • Undoing Changes
  • Versions
  • Multithreaded ZODB Programs
• Related Modules
  • persistent.mapping.PersistentMapping
  • persistent.list.PersistentList
  • BTrees Package
• Resources
• GNU Free Documentation License
  • Applicability and Definitions
  • Verbatim Copying
  • Copying in Quantity
  • Modifications
  • Combining Documents
  • Collections of Documents
  • Aggregation With Independent Works
  • Translation
  • Termination
  • Future Revisions of This Licence