[elephant-devel] Metaclass documentation

[Ian Eslick]

I'm in the middle of writing that section now.  I'll be sure to  
document the lifecycle.  An instance is only initialized, I believe,  
when it is not cached (i.e. if the UID is not in the cache, it then  
creates a new instance) so on any given access you cannot guarantee  
that it will or won't undergo initialization.  This can be  
challenging to think through with regards to :transient slots.

Ian

On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Pierre THIERRY wrote:

> Just a thought about 1.0:
>
> one thing that is absolutely needed is a comprehensive  
> documentation of
> the persistent metaclass. Some of its behaviour can be quite  
> unexpected,
> like the fact that an object goes through its initialization each time
> it is deserialized.
>
> When initialization of an object has side effects, that can be
> problematic...
>
> Quickly,
> Pierre
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