thomas, putting together a zope python product to represent a CD isn't hard at all. if you go the product route you'll be able to index and search across all attributes of the CD object using ZCatalog. check out the "boring product" at http://www.zope.org/Members/gtk/Boring/HowTo-Boring, it is a good guide to the framework making up a zope product. jens

-----Original Message----- From: zope-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Weholt Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 05:28 To: 'Zope-Dev@zope.org' Subject: [Zope-dev] Use ZODB3 and ZCatalog for indexing purposes

Hi,

I'm wondering about using ZODB3 and ZCatalog for a CD-indexing project. The actual cd-roms will seldom change after they've been registered, and I'd like to have some sort of auto-full-text-search feature. How does ZODB3 and ZCatalog fit in this picture? I'm NOT making a Zope-product yet, just a plain python-script, using ZODB/ZCatalog for storage. Later, the thing will have a Zope-interface, but for now I'm having so much trouble with my current implementation using PostgreSQL, mostly due to the fact that I cannot get full-text-searching, that I really need some progress now. I'm dealing with plain python objects the entire time, but searching is alpha/omega in this case and will break it completly if not implemented correctly.

Any hints, tips, flames or just emails sent out of boredome, I'm a lonely coder who needs a stinkin' break before I go completly nuts, so any feedback will be great. :->

Thomas