[Zope] ZCatalog (2.3.1) won't acquire method from parent folder?

11 May 2001

      Running Zope 2.3.1; A ZCatalog instance that I have won't acquire a method
from the parent folder it resides in; I get a NameError on the method.  This
is very strange.  The method is called from another method whose results are
supposed to be indexed.

+Zope Root
  +Classifieds	(Container, Subclassed from
				Folder, contains a method called
			  	iterateText(self, text, times))
     Catalog	(ZCatalog)

I have a text index set up for a method called searchTextWeighted, which is
a DTML template file on disk within a python product.  Inside
searchTextWeighted, I have the following DTML:
	<dtml-var expr="iterateText(getTitleExpanded(), 5)">

iterateText is a method of a python class that is subclassed from
ZCatalog.CatalogAware and OFS.Folder.Folder:

	def iterateText(self, text, times):
        	"""Repeats output of text times # of lines for # of times"""
        	result=''
		times=int(times)
        	for item in range(times):
        	  result=result+text+'\n'
        	return result

I get a name error for iterateText upon trying to add a catalog-Aware class,
when index_objects() is run (I just made this class Catalog-aware).  This is
weird, since, in terms of namespaces, iterateText is in a folder above the
Catalog, and also above the item I am trying to ad, so no matter how you
look at it, iterateText should be acquired, and not generate a Name Error.
In testing this out, I am able to traverse to iterateText via URL in a
browser with no problems.

I assume that this is not related to the ZCatalog bug in 2.3.1 where the
Catalog won't run a method requiring arguments.  The method in the index,
searchTextWeighted, passes all the arguments needed by iterateText in the
DTML.  So I am a bit confused here.

Traceback is below.

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Traceback (innermost last):
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 223, in
publish_module
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in
zpublisher_exception_hook
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in publish
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply
    (Object: manage_addAdItem)
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in
call_object
    (Object: manage_addAdItem)
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/DailyClassifieds/item.py, line 251,
in manage_addAdItem
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 302, in
_setObject
    (Object: Traversable)
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/CatalogAwareness.py, line
114, in manage_afterAdd
    (Object: CatalogAware)
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/CatalogAwareness.py, line
184, in index_object
    (Object: CatalogAware)
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.py, line 429, in
catalog_object
    (Object: Traversable)
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/Catalog.py, line 448, in
catalogObject
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/SearchIndex/UnTextIndex.py, line 323, in
index_object
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/App/special_dtml.py, line 127, in __call__
    (Object: searchTextWeighted)
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 538, in
__call__
    (Object: searchTextWeighted)
  File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 334, in
eval
    (Object: iterateText(getTitleExpanded(), 5))
    (Info: iterateText)
  File <string>, line 0, in ?
NameError: (see above)
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Sean

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Sean Upton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
SignOnSanDiego.com
The San Diego Union-Tribune
619.718.5241
sean.upton@uniontrib.com
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[Zope] ZCatalog (2.3.1) won't acquire method from parent folder?

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