The ZenRelations class allows Zope objects to form bi-directional relationships. There are four different types of relationships possible:
ONE_TO_ONEonly one object at each end of the relationship
ONE_TO_MANYclassic parent-child relation, no containment objects have different primary paths
ONE_TO_MANY_CONTone-to-many containment relation (but bi-directional)
MANY_TO_MANYmany objects on both ends of relationship
Example of 1:1 Server to Admin Relationship
... from Products.ZenRelations.RelSchema import *
... class Server(Device): ... _relations = ( 
("admin" 
, ToOne(ToOne, "Admin", "server") 
), ) + Device._relations ... ... class Admin(TestBaseClass): ... _relations = ( ("server", ToOne(ToOne, "Server", "admin")), 
) ... ... ...The Server object is an example of a class that inherits from Device. According to this relationship there can be only one Admin assigned to a Server and only one Server assigned to an Admin. This relationship is created by:
| Importing ToOne from Products.ZenRelations.RelSchema. |
| Appending a two-item tuple to the _relations attribute |
| The first item in the tuple is a "string" object which is the local name |
| The second item in the tuple is a "RelSchema" object which represents the relationship to another class. In this case the ToOne constructor creates/returns that "RelSchema" object ToOne constructors takes three parameters:
|
| Appending a complementary two item tuple to the _relations attribute in the relative class. |
