[Seaside] GOODS tutorial questions

[Avi Bryant]

On Aug 9, 2004, at 7:45 PM, LK wrote:

> 1.  Do I need to create a unique 'user' class with #login and 
> #password methods.

I'm not sure what you mean here... you need a User class if you want 
User objects...

> 2. Is this method usable for all GOODS access, or just for a Login 
> type of situation?
>
> withEscapeContinuation: aBlock
>  ^ (self db) commitWithRetry: [super withEscapeContinuation: aBlock]

All GOODS access.  What it does is set up one transaction per HTTP 
request, and rollback and repeat the request any time the transaction 
fails.  It's a very simple but generally useful default policy.

> 3.  If I want to access several GOODS objects in the same session, I 
> would add more session variables:
> ie. 'User', 'Logs', 'LogTypes' etc.

I don't see why you'd need more session variables, but maybe I'm 
misunderstanding the question.  All access to GOODS data goes through 
the root object of the database.  This will likely have items in it 
like 'Logs' and 'LogTypes'.  So you might have a method on your session 
like this:

logTypes
	^ self db root at: 'LogTypes'

But I don't think you'd have an instance variable just to store that.

Avi