Tasty Tasty Soup: cornerstone.soup

Yesterday I meet Robert to finish work on cornerstone.soup after our cologne alliance partner Sven found an odd bug. We simplified the soup recipe, but now its really yummy. Version 1.0 is released.

cornerstone.soup is a genric storage for mass-data in an isolated container. Light-weight records are stored in an IOBTree. A Zope-Tool-Kit catalog in used to index values of interest. cornerstone.soup is no out-of-the-box package. Its addressed to developers needing to solve the problem of storing tiny entities of mass-data, where heavy weight archetypes or dexterity are too much effort and are to slow. I.e if you need a container for non-CMSish content, like votes, data from a poll, orders in a webshop, measuring data, or alike.

Isolated means, for each soup we store all in one persistent local utility. Stored are generic „Records“ which are persistent items with attributes passed in at construction time as keyword arguments. Also the catalog with its indexes is part of the local utility. Items are accessed by query.

We tested the soup with Zope 2.10 and Zope 2.12. It works in a plain Zope. We are using it at the moment in a Plone 3.3

For more information read the documentation at pypi: cornerstone.soup.