ZODB and COM Server - how to create collection attribute?

[Mark Hammond]

Gerhard Kalab wrote:

> I'd like to write a COM-Server and use ZODB for persistence.
> 
> The following code doesn't work, because the class Person has a
> COM-collection (books) which cannot be pickled.
> It would be easy to change the books attribute to get and set COM-methods to
> get and set the books list. But is it possible to use a COM-attribute?
> Is there any way I can change the books list to a list of normal python
> objects before it is going to be saved? And can I change it back to a
> COM-collection after the list is loaded by ZODB?
> Any other ideas?


Your best bet is probably to implement an __getstate__ and __setstate__ 
methods on your class.  This code could unwrap the COM collection, and 
re-wrap as necessary.  Check out the documentation on pickle and/or the 
copy module for more details...

Mark.