Re: [SQLObject] request (info or feature): two hooks for implementing higher-level types

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 02:54, Bud P.Bruegger wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> I thought more about my "higher-level" types and believe what I really
> need are two hooks:
> 
> * afterLoad() that is called just after the object has been created from
>   data from the DBMS
> 
> * beforeStore() that is called just before storing data in the DBMS
> 
> By default, these don't do anything and need to be overloaded if one
> wants to use them.
> 
> The following example shows how to apply this to my problem:
> 
> assume _columns contains
>   ...
>   FloatCol('_ptX'),
>   FloatCol('_ptY'),
>   ...

I think you would want to do:

def _get_point(self):
    return Point(self._ptX, self._ptY)

def _set_point(self, value):
    self._ptX, self._ptY = value.x(), value.y()

Isn't that sufficient?  

  Ian