pickle and module versioning
dieter
dieter at handshake.de
Tue Dec 18 03:15:48 EST 2018
Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:
> ...
> Has anyone else run into this issue
People who use the "ZODB" (= "Zope Object DataBase")
are familiar with it.
> and have any ideas?
There are things, you must not do. In the "ZODB" case, for example,
you must not change whether the class inherits from "persistent.Persistent"
or not.
For other things, there are workarounds:
* you can use "module" aliases and/or class aliases inside a module
to handle changes in the package/class structure
* you can register a "class factory" to provide a "default class"
for a class not found -- this way, you have at least
access to the data event though the replacement class
does not understand it.
* if a (new) class is found, it must be able to cope
with the (old) data. You may need to provide
an appropriate "__setstate__" in the (new) class
to make this possible.
* objects created from old data may lack attributes
which objects created after a class change have.
You can either add them in "__setstate__" or provide
default values in the class
* if you plan drastical changes, migrate your data using
a different serialization.
An example is e.g. a switch from "ZODB on Python 2" to
"ZODB on Python 3". One approach in this case
is to use "collective.transmogrifier".
See "https://docs.plone.org/develop/import/index.html#collective-transmogrifier" for details.
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