[Z3-sqlos] Problems with the NameChooser

[Brian Sutherland]

Hi all,

I just documented this bug in the sqlos TODO.txt. I would solve it, but
am quite unsure of how.

* There is a bug related to SQLObject names. Most of sqlos thinks that the
  name of an object is equal to ${factory_id}.${sqlobject_id} where the factory
  id is set in ZCML. This mostly works fine and is quite unique.  The only
  problem is in the Adding view, where the NameChooser guesses the name to be
  ${package}.${class}.${sqlobject_id}. This means that in order to use the
  adding view all sqlos:factory declarations have to have an id of this form
  or the Adding view will error when it tries container[name]. Unfortunately I
  cannot see an easy and correct way to get the factory id inside the
  NameChooser.

I only have 3 bad ideas:
    * Use a different scheme for object names. i.e. something attached
      to the object itself. (tablename.sqlrow for instance), that way we
      could implement __name__ as a property. tablename is probably more
      unique than factory id.
    * Set the name on the object as it is created in the factory, the
      name chooser would then pick it up.
    * Some really evil fuzzy search (this is not really an option)

Any ideas?

Without a good one, we should probably just leave things as they are.

-- 
Brian Sutherland

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