Well, I'm new to this list, but I had a similar problem. I just stuck the meta_type, etc. in the catalog using additional Metadata. Afterally, the attributes you're referring to are small. Best Regards, -jj On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:30:01PM -0700, Edward Pollard wrote:

I'm pulling my hair out here. I'm sure the answer is simple.

How can I get to properties of an object from its ZCatalog entry?

I'm iterating through results, and want to do something special if the result is a record for a PDF file. I know how to check the file to see if its a PDF, but ZCatalog does not keep track of all the file contents. I know there is a way to resolve the record ID into the actual object, but I forget how and cannot find a reference to it.

Thanks,

Edward

---- For clarity, here is some of my code. I am looking for what to use instead of ?? zIndex_Catalog is my Catalog. zIndexFileItem is my CatalogAware wrapper ZClass for File.

searchresults = list(context.zIndex_Catalog.searchResults(blah blah search params blah blah)) searchresults.sort( lambda x, y: cmp(x.title, y.title)) for result in searchresults: if ((??.meta_type == 'File') or (??.meta_type == 'zIndexFileItem')): if (??.getContentType == "application/pdf"): PDF Specific Code Here

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tal:define="url python: result.getpath(result.data_record_id_)" and results are defined as <div tal:define="results here/SiteCatalog"> somewhere above that .. On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 16:30, Edward Pollard wrote:

I'm pulling my hair out here. I'm sure the answer is simple.

How can I get to properties of an object from its ZCatalog entry?

I'm iterating through results, and want to do something special if the result is a record for a PDF file. I know how to check the file to see if its a PDF, but ZCatalog does not keep track of all the file contents. I know there is a way to resolve the record ID into the actual object, but I forget how and cannot find a reference to it.

Thanks,

Edward

---- For clarity, here is some of my code. I am looking for what to use instead of ?? zIndex_Catalog is my Catalog. zIndexFileItem is my CatalogAware wrapper ZClass for File.

searchresults = list(context.zIndex_Catalog.searchResults(blah blah search params blah blah)) searchresults.sort( lambda x, y: cmp(x.title, y.title)) for result in searchresults: if ((??.meta_type == 'File') or (??.meta_type == 'zIndexFileItem')): if (??.getContentType == "application/pdf"): PDF Specific Code Here

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On Thursday 06 March 2003 23:30, Edward Pollard wrote:

I'm pulling my hair out here. I'm sure the answer is simple.

How can I get to properties of an object from its ZCatalog entry?

I'm iterating through results, and want to do something special if the result is a record for a PDF file. I know how to check the file to see if its a PDF, but ZCatalog does not keep track of all the file contents. I know there is a way to resolve the record ID into the actual object, but I forget how and cannot find a reference to it.

---- For clarity, here is some of my code. I am looking for what to use instead of ?? zIndex_Catalog is my Catalog. zIndexFileItem is my CatalogAware wrapper ZClass for File.

searchresults = list(context.zIndex_Catalog.searchResults(blah blah search params blah blah)) searchresults.sort( lambda x, y: cmp(x.title, y.title)) for result in searchresults: if ((??.meta_type == 'File') or (??.meta_type == 'zIndexFileItem')): if (??.getContentType == "application/pdf"): PDF Specific Code Here

The method to use on the ZCatalog result record is "getObject()". So you may have an improved version of your code like this : query = {} query['param1'] = value1 query['param2'] = value2 query['sort_on'] = 'title' for result in context.zIndex_Catalog.searchResults (query): if result.meta_type in ['File','zIndexFileItem']: object = result.getObject() if object.getContentType == 'application/pdf': <PDF specific code> This should work (as long as 'meta_type' is in your ZCatalog metadatas). Thierry