[Zope] ZTopics, was: Pointer-to-Object Properties

Michael Bernstein <mbernstein@profitscape.net> wrote:

How is this issue going to be handled with the proposed Topics? Topic objects are supposed to present an 'alternate' containment heirarchy, will they allow overiding a contained object's security settings?

No. Actually, they don't contain objects. They work by canning a set of ZCatalog queries. The object the queries result in after being ANDed together are the objects that are 'in' the ZTopic, but 'in' only in a figurative sense. They can contain more ZTopics, though, and the ZTopics they contain can serve to refine the searches to provide topical hierarchies. It's really neat. Mike.