Chris Withers wrote:
Steve Alexander wrote:
Is there any good reason that the "brains" returned by ZCatalog searches don't have a standard property that reflects the URL of the object they have meta-data from?
That sounds like a good idea :-)
This would seem to me to be more object-oriented, and would save calls to someCatalog.getpath(data_record_id_) in loops.
All you'd need to do is find some way of returning this from a method of your object-being-catalogued that takes no arguments and then you could add it as normal meta-data column.
I wonder if that's possible?
Yes. The url method of CatalogAwareness does this. So you could just add "url" to the metadata of your catalog.
cheers,
Chris
PS: You could always just make your own brains that returned the results of this call, but that doesn't make it any more efficient :(
It makes it less efficient, as the object would have to be obtained when you made the brain.url call. Not much point using brains at all then. Although there are ways to do this now, I guess I was wondering about making it a standard part of catalogs. Thinking further though, if it is as easy as adding "url" to the catalog's metadata, why bother? -- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited http://www.cat-box.net