Hi, I read about ZCatalog been _the_ method of managing and searching objects in the ZODB. So I decieded to do searches and lists of object using ZCatalog. After reading all how-to's/API-doc about ZCatalog, a lot in mailings lists and studying a lots of code (ZDiscussions, Squishdot, PTK) I tried to use ZCatalog the proper way. But there is one problem I could not solve for about 8 hours of work. A short description of what my code does: I have three classes (NewsManager, NewsItem and ContentFolder) caring about news items. If I am creating a news item, it's object gets saved and cataloged in the content folder (the content inherits from ZCatalog). The NewsManager object responsible about creating the news item is named news and resides in the same directory as the folderish content object does. So the directory structure is: /orgname/content (content object, inherits from Products.ZCatalog) /orgname/news (NewsManager object, inherits from OSF.Folder) Now the problem (for a step by step description see below): The news items are correctly created in the content folder. But the item is cataloged as it would reside in xxx/news/content (which does not exist). I use self.absolute_url(relative=1) (called by __uniqueCatalogId()) to generate the catalog id (see manage_afterAdd below). It seems (for me) that some aquisition magic is going on. Later when I edit the news item (manage_editNewsItem called by manage_editNewsItemForm) there appears an additional catalog entry with the id xxx/content. Now there are two catalog entries for one news item. If I delete the news item manualy using the zope management GUI one of these catalog entries will be deleted only. Hints: 1) The following status message appears in zopes error log after having edited /orgname/news/content/20001219_news000022: 2000-12-19T11:10:41 ERROR(200) Catalog uncatalogObject unsuccessfully attempted to uncatalog an object with a uid of /orgname/content/20001219_news000022. 2) It seems for me that the magic resides in absolute_url(). Does somebody know about a solution of this problem or have an additional hint about generating catalog id's (it's a requirement for me to have the /orgname/-info in the catalog id!)? I'am a Zope newby, so forgive me errors that are obvious. System and SW-Versions: - WinNT4 SP6 US - Zope 2.2.4 started manualy Remark: It's all programmed in Python because I don't like GUI programming tools (click, click, ... :-( ). So I implement all logic in python (as a Product).
>>> what I've done in the zope management GUI <<<<<<<<<<
Create a news item: http://localhost:8080/up/news/manage_addNewsItemForm View Contents (content folder): http://localhost:8080/up/content/manage_main --> item 20001219_news000022 is listed and links to: --> item 20001219_news000022 is listed and links to: http://localhost:8080/up/content/20001219_news000022/manage_editNewsItemForm View Cataloged Objects (content folder): http://localhost:8080/up/content/manage_catalogView --> content contains 1 record(s). NewsItem /up/news/content/20001219_news000022 (test item) ??? why catalogized with path containing /news/? Edit the item by clicking the link in Cataloged Objects: Edit the item by clicking the link in Cataloged Objects: http://localhost:8080/up/news/content/20001219_news000022/manage_editNewsIte mForm View Catalog Objects: http://localhost:8080/up/content/manage_catalogView --> content contains 2 record(s). NewsItem /up/news/content/20001219_news000022 (test item) NewsItem /up/content/20001219_news000022 (test item edited) ??? why couldn't the old item be uncatalogized? ??? why the changed item is catalogized without /news/ path? !!! I think there is one answer to both questions! !!! Rem.: I'd like to have the items cataloged without /news/ in the path. remarks: 1) content is the folder containing all kind of items 2) content is also a ZCatalog folder containing a Vocabulary
>>> Code snippets <<<<<<<<<<
#---------------------------------------------------------------------- # NewsManager.py # # The only functionality of NewsManager is adding a new newsItem. It # builds a unique news item id and then calls the addNewsItem method of # NewsItem. #---------------------------------------------------------------------- class NewsManager(OFS.Folder.Folder): # ... some code def __init__(self, parentFolder, contentFolder): self.contentFolder = contentFolder self.newsCounter = 0 return dbhelpers.instObject(self, parentFolder, "news") # ... unimportant another code manage_addNewsItemForm = NewsItem.manage_addNewsItemForm def manage_addNewsItem(self, title, abstract, location, generator, prio, date_syn, date_pub, REQUEST=None): "write news item in content folder" id = time.strftime("%Y%m%d", time.localtime(time.time())) \ + "_news%06d" % (self.newsCounter) self.newsCounter = self.newsCounter + 1 return NewsItem.manage_addNewsItem(self.contentFolder, id, title, abstract, location, generator, prio, date_syn, date_pub, REQUEST) #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # NewsItem.py #---------------------------------------------------------------------- class NewsItem(OFS.SimpleItem.SimpleItem): "A news item in the subscriptable news system." meta_type = "NewsItem" def __init__(self, **para): # ... set parameters, eg.: self.catalogFolder = para['catalogFolder'] manage_editNewsItemForm = Globals.HTMLFile("newsitem_editform", globals()) def manage_editNewsItem(self, title, abstract, location, generator, prio, date_syn, date_pub, REQUEST=None): "Save changes to News Item" # ... save changed parameteres # recatalog object (rem.: self.catalogFolder is the catalog) try: self.catalogFolder.uncatalog_object(self.__uniqueCatalogId()) except ValueError: pass self.catalogFolder.catalog_object(self, self.__uniqueCatalogId()) # ... etc. def __uniqueCatalogId(self): return '/' + self.absolute_url(relative=1) def manage_afterAdd(self, item, container): # copied from ZDiscussions.py, see additional remarks there OFS.SimpleItem.SimpleItem.manage_afterAdd(self, item, container) self.catalogFolder.catalog_object(self, self.__uniqueCatalogId()) manage_addNewsItemForm = Globals.HTMLFile("newsitem_addform", globals()) def manage_addNewsItem(parentFolder, id, title, abstract, location, generator, prio, date_syn, date_pub, REQUEST=None): "Save changes to News Item" # instanate object (parameters have to be set in NewsItem (and before the # instanation of the object) because ZCatalog calls implicitely manage_afterAdd. newsItemObj = dbhelpers.instObject(NewsItem(catalogFolder = parentFolder, abstract = abstract, location = location, generator = generator, prio = prio, date_syn = various.datestr2epoch(date_syn), date_pub = various.datestr2epoch(date_pub)), parentFolder, id, title) if REQUEST is not None: return Globals.MessageDialog(title = 'Edited', message = '<strong>%s</strong> has been edited.' % newsItemObj.id, action = 'manage_main') #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # ContentFolder.py: folder containing content #---------------------------------------------------------------------- class ContentFolder(ZCatalog.ZCatalog): "The news management system" def __init__(self, parentFolder, id, title=''): # initialize ZCatalog (content folder is a ZCatalog!) ZCatalog.ZCatalog.__init__(self, id, title) # index setup (id and title allready catalogued by ZCatalog) self._catalog.addIndex('abstract', 'TextIndex') # ... etc. # meta-data colums setup (id and title allready catalogued by ZCatalog) self._catalog.addColumn('abstract') # ... etc. return dbhelpers.instObject(self, parentFolder, "content") #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # dbhelpers.py #---------------------------------------------------------------------- def instObject(obj, parent, id, title=''): """instanates an object in the ZODB obj = Object to instanate parent = parent folder object id = the id of the document title = title of the document (optional)""" obj.id=str(id) obj.title=title parent._setObject(id, obj) return parent._getOb(id) # == obj (see OSF/Folder.py) _______________________________________________________ Grégoire Weber Rigistr. 31 CH-8006 Zürich Switzerland phone: +41-(0)1-361 66 11 mobile: +41-(0)79-44 11 457 mailto:gregoire.weber@switzerland.org Gregi's Handy-Handhabung: http://www.topics.ch/greg/ghh