Lifecycle Event Subscribers

A set of subscribers for the object zope.lifecycleevent events.

These subscribers take care of registering and unregistering objects with all available IIntIds utilities when IObjectAddedEvent and IObjectRemovedEvent events are fired, respectively.

These subscribers and events are modeled on those that come with zope.intid and are intended to be used (optionally) as drop-in replacements for them. This allows zc.intid to work in conjunction with things written for zope.intid, such as zope.catalog.

In particular, a few things are done just like zope.intid:

  1. We do ensure that the object can be adapted to IKeyReference before doing any processing (even though we don’t register that in the utility or otherwise use it.) In the common case of persistent objects, this will ensure that the object is in the database and has a jar and oid, common needs.
  2. We do broadcast the events from zope.intid.interfaces, even though the utility will broadcast its own events. Thus these subscribers generate at least three events for every lifecycle event.

Configuring

To configure, you need to include subscribers.zcml, while being careful about how zope.intid is configured:

<!-- configure.zcml -->
<!--
If we load zope.intid, we get subscribers for the Object events
that ensure all ILocation objects are registered/unregistered when
they are added/removed, plus another set of events when they
get/lose intids. This second set of events is meant to update
zope.catalog. A consequence of this is that ILocation objects must
be adaptable to KeyReferences when they are ObjectAdded (for
purposes of zope.intid, which we don't care about, but this also
ensures that they have ZODB Connections, which is good).

We cannot use these subscribers as-is due to the way the use IKeyReference
and try to register that. However, our subscribers *do* make sure that
the given objects can be adapted to IKeyReference because that's useful and
may be required by catalogs or other subscribers.
-->
<exclude package="zope.intid" file="subscribers.zcml" />
<include package="zope.intid" />

<!-- Make sure the default IKeyReference adapters are in place -->
<include package="zope.keyreference" />

<include package="zc.intid" />

<!--
Make zc.intid utilities compatible with zope.intid utilities.
-->
<include package="zc.intid" file="zope-intid.zcml" />

<!-- To hook them up to the Object events, we need to include the file -->
<include package="zc.intid" file="subscribers.zcml" />

KeyReferences and zope.intid

These subscribers do not register/unregister a IKeyReference with the intid utilities. Instead, it registers the actual object, and the events that are broadcast are broadcast holding the actual object.

IKeyReferenceces, especially KeyReferenceToPersistent, are used for a few reasons. First, they provide a stable, object-identity-based pointer to objects. To be identity based, this pointer is independent of the equality and hashing algorithms of the underlying object. Identity-based comparisons are necessary for the classic zope.intid utility implementation which uses a second OIBTree to maintain the backreferece from object to assigned intid (clearly you don’t want two non-identical objects which happen to compare equally now to get the same intid as that condition may change). Likewise, these references are all defined to be mutually comparable, no matter how they are implemented, a condition necessary for them to all work together in a OIBTree. Lastly, these references are meant to be comparable during ZODB conflict resolution (the original persistent objects probably won’t be), which, again, is a condition of the implementation using a OIBTree.

A consequence of avoiding these references is that generally persistent objects that are expected to have intids assigned should not be used as keys in an OxBTree or stored in an OOSet. Instead, all such data structures should use the integer variations (e.g., IISet), with the intid as the key.

Subscriber Functions

zc.intid.subscribers.addIntIdSubscriber(ob, event)[source]

Registers the object in all unique id utilities and fires an event for the catalogs. Notice that each utility will fire zc.intid.interfaces.IIdAddedEvent; this subscriber will then fire one single zope.intid.interfaces.IIntIdAddedEvent, followed by one single zc.intid.interfaces.IAfterIdAddedEvent; this gives a guaranteed order such that zope.catalog and other Zope event listeners will have fired.

zc.intid.subscribers.removeIntIdSubscriber(ob, event)[source]

Removes the unique ids registered for the object in all the unique id utilities.

Just before this happens (for the first time), an zc.intid.interfaces.IBeforeIdRemovedEvent is fired, followed by an zope.intid.interfaces.IIntIdRemovedEvent. Notice that this is fired before the id is actually removed from any utility, giving other subscribers time to do their cleanup.

Before each utility removes its registration, it will fire zc.intid.interfaces.IIdRemovedEvent. This gives a guaranteed order such that zope.catalog and other Zope event listeners will have fired.

zc.intid.subscribers.intIdEventNotify(event)[source]

Event subscriber to dispatch IntIdEvent to interested adapters.

See subscribers.zcml for its registrations (it handles two types of events).