Evan Simpson wrote:
In the case of Catalogs, much of the time we're probably not interested in cataloging "whatever lives at this path address";
At the moment this is true, but Jim and I have discussed the possibility of ZCatalog being treating the paths less atomically and more as a sequence of nodes from root to the target, this way, you could ask the catalog for all objects below a certain point that match search criteria, etc.
we want information about a specific object. Fortunately, the cut/copy/paste and rename implementations make the path approach workable. As a matter of fact, the new mountable database code required changing the clipboard operations to use paths instead of object monikers.
And it looks like the event stuff is favoring paths also, I strongly suggest we make sure any of these needs is captured in the proposed traversal interface: http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/Projects/Interfaces/Traversal -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit WikiCentral for the latest Zen: http://www.zope.org/Members/WikiCentral