At 02:19 03/11/99 , Stuart 'Zen' Bishop wrote:

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Otto Hammersmith wrote:

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On the other hand would it make sense (or is is possible already) to "chain" ZCatalogs?

Its not possible yet. A product needs to be written that duplicates the ZCatalog interface, and simply returns the results from a list of registered Catalogs - fairly simple but down in my list of priorities so any volunteers? :-) The only tricky thing would be deciding if the indexes and meta data are going to be the _intersection_ of all registered ZCatalogs, or the _union_ of all registered ZCatalogs. In theory, you should be able to add any searchable instances to such a product (ZSQL methods etc).

Except that ZCatalogs at the moment do not correctly support the Searchable interface. The _searchable_result_columns method returns information about the indexes instead of the columns returned from a search. Also, the returned results do not support a _searchable_result_columns method themselves, which all other Searchable objects do. This has been filed to the collector. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------