SVN: ZODB/trunk/src/ Enhanced the database opening conveniences:

Log message for revision 112283:
  Enhanced the database opening conveniences:
  
  - You can now pass storage keyword arguments to ZODB.DB and
    ZODB.connection.
  
  - You can now pass None (rather than a storage or file name) to get
    a database with a mapping storage.
  

Changed:
  U   ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt
  U   ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/DB.py
  U   ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/tests/testDB.py

-=-
Modified: ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt
===================================================================
--- ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt	2010-05-13 16:16:48 UTC (rev 112282)
+++ ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt	2010-05-13 16:41:54 UTC (rev 112283)
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@
   (transaction-manager attempts method) introduced in the
   ``transaction`` 1.1.0 release.
 
+- Enhanced the database opening conveniences:
+
+  - You can now pass storage keyword arguments to ZODB.DB and
+    ZODB.connection.
+
+  - You can now pass None (rather than a storage or file name) to get
+    a database with a mapping storage.
+
 Bugs Fixed
 ----------
 

Modified: ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/DB.py
===================================================================
--- ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/DB.py	2010-05-13 16:16:48 UTC (rev 112282)
+++ ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/DB.py	2010-05-13 16:41:54 UTC (rev 112283)
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
                  databases=None,
                  xrefs=True,
                  max_saved_oids=999,
-                 ):
+                 **storage_args):
         """Create an object database.
 
         :Parameters:
@@ -409,7 +409,10 @@
         """
         if isinstance(storage, basestring):
             from ZODB import FileStorage
-            storage = ZODB.FileStorage.FileStorage(storage)
+            storage = ZODB.FileStorage.FileStorage(storage, **storage_args)
+        elif storage is None:
+            from ZODB import MappingStorage
+            storage = ZODB.MappingStorage.MappingStorage(**storage_args)
 
         # Allocate lock.
         x = threading.RLock()

Modified: ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/tests/testDB.py
===================================================================
--- ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/tests/testDB.py	2010-05-13 16:16:48 UTC (rev 112282)
+++ ZODB/trunk/src/ZODB/tests/testDB.py	2010-05-13 16:41:54 UTC (rev 112283)
@@ -161,6 +161,17 @@
     >>> db.close()
     """
 
+def passing_None_to_DB():
+    """You can pass None DB to get a MappingStorage.
+
+    (Also note that we can access DB in ZODB.)
+
+    >>> db = ZODB.DB(None)
+    >>> db.storage # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
+    <ZODB.MappingStorage.MappingStorage object at ...
+    >>> db.close()
+    """
+
 def open_convenience():
     """Often, we just want to open a single connection.
 
@@ -180,6 +191,22 @@
     >>> conn.root()
     {'x': 1}
     >>> db.close()
+
+
+    We can pass storage-specific arguments if they don't conflict with
+    DB arguments.
+
+    >>> conn = ZODB.connection('data.fs', blob_dir='blobs')
+    >>> conn.root()['b'] = ZODB.blob.Blob('test')
+    >>> transaction.commit()
+    >>> conn.close()
+
+    >>> db = ZODB.DB('data.fs', blob_dir='blobs')
+    >>> conn = db.open()
+    >>> conn.root()['b'].open().read()
+    'test'
+    >>> db.close()
+
     """
 
 if sys.version_info >= (2, 6):