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Another GOODS issue: BlockContext's

Ken Causey-3
I seem to remember this coming up in the past but a quick Google search
doesn't turn anything up.  It appears that GOODS is quite happy to store
a BlockContext but it entirely unable to reinstantiate it.  It attempts
to use BlockContext (ContextPart) class>>basicNew: which throws a
'Contexts must only be created with newForMethod:' error.  Quite a PITA
when you want to store something in a SortedCollection.  Oh well, I
guess I can call OrderedCollection>>sortBy: every time I add a new item
since adding is a comparatively rare action.

Ken



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Re: Another GOODS issue: BlockContext's

Benjamin Pollack
On 6/1/06, Ken Causey <[hidden email]> wrote:
I seem to remember this coming up in the past but a quick Google search
doesn't turn anything up.  It appears that GOODS is quite happy to store
a BlockContext but it entirely unable to reinstantiate it.  It attempts
to use BlockContext (ContextPart) class>>basicNew: which throws a
'Contexts must only be created with newForMethod:' error.  Quite a PITA
when you want to store something in a SortedCollection.  Oh well, I
guess I can call OrderedCollection>>sortBy: every time I add a new item
since adding is a comparatively rare action.


Hi Ken,

Is there a reason you can't use one of the data structures in the BTree package?  Those can be stored and retrieved from GOODS and are faster if you have a big collection of data anyway.

On a different note, I'd swear that a Seaside project I did about two years ago stored a SortedCollection in GOODS. I'll see if I can't find that image so I can tell you either what workaround I used or figure out what changed to break that behavior.

--Benjamin


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Re: Another GOODS issue: BlockContext's

Ken Causey-3
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 20:04 -0400, Benjamin Pollack wrote:

> On 6/1/06, Ken Causey <[hidden email]> wrote:
>         I seem to remember this coming up in the past but a quick
>         Google search
>         doesn't turn anything up.  It appears that GOODS is quite
>         happy to store
>         a BlockContext but it entirely unable to reinstantiate it.  It
>         attempts
>         to use BlockContext (ContextPart) class>>basicNew: which
>         throws a
>         'Contexts must only be created with newForMethod:'
>         error.  Quite a PITA
>         when you want to store something in a SortedCollection.  Oh
>         well, I
>         guess I can call OrderedCollection>>sortBy: every time I add a
>         new item
>         since adding is a comparatively rare action.
>
>
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Is there a reason you can't use one of the data structures in the
> BTree package?  Those can be stored and retrieved from GOODS and are
> faster if you have a big collection of data anyway.
Actually, I am using a BTree for my root.  But in this case I simply
needed a sortable ordered collection, not a dictionary-like structure,
for this particular collection.  I don't see how BTree fits in there.
Am I missing something?

> On a different note, I'd swear that a Seaside project I did about two
> years ago stored a SortedCollection in GOODS. I'll see if I can't find
> that image so I can tell you either what workaround I used or figure
> out what changed to break that behavior.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Ken

>
> --Benjamin



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Re: Another GOODS issue: BlockContext's

cdavidshaffer
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Ken Causey wrote:

>I seem to remember this coming up in the past but a quick Google search
>doesn't turn anything up.  It appears that GOODS is quite happy to store
>a BlockContext but it entirely unable to reinstantiate it.  It attempts
>to use BlockContext (ContextPart) class>>basicNew: which throws a
>'Contexts must only be created with newForMethod:' error.  Quite a PITA
>when you want to store something in a SortedCollection.  Oh well, I
>guess I can call OrderedCollection>>sortBy: every time I add a new item
>since adding is a comparatively rare action.
>
>Ken
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>  
>
One solution I've used is to create a SortCriteria class which answers
value:value: as needed for a given situation.

David


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Re: Another GOODS issue: BlockContext's

Benjamin Pollack
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On 6/1/06, Ken Causey <[hidden email]> wrote:
Actually, I am using a BTree for my root.  But in this case I simply
needed a sortable ordered collection, not a dictionary-like structure,
for this particular collection.  I don't see how BTree fits in there.
Am I missing something?

No, you're not; I just wasn't thinking very clearly.

> On a different note, I'd swear that a Seaside project I did about two
> years ago stored a SortedCollection in GOODS. I'll see if I can't find
> that image so I can tell you either what workaround I used or figure
> out what changed to break that behavior.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Unfortunately, my solution at the time was apparently to switch to Magma, so I don't have a good suggestion for you.

--Benjamin