Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

When do messages get sent?

Up until this point, we've spent a fair length of time digging in to how the relevant messaging will be generated and sent, but very little about when it happens, apart from the examination of Order creation and cancellation. Since messages correspond directly to various local CRUD operations, it's tempting to simply add the messaging calls into the _create and _update methods that they already have, making sure to account for the is_dirty and is_new flags that we defined in BaseDataObject. Before going down that path, though, it would be a good idea to take a look at all of the messaging processes, from origination to completion, to make sure that they have a clear process termination. The scenario that we need ...