KJZZ Webmaster wrote at 2007-1-22 09:53 -0700:

I am using zope 2.8.1. and am using the following dtml method to reindex the catalog:

<dtml-let URL1=HTTP_REFERER> <dtml-call "Catalog.manage_catalogReindex(REQUEST, RESPONSE, URL1)"> <dtml-call expr="RESPONSE.redirect(URL1)"> </dtml-let>

However, midway through the reindex, I am receiving the following error message:

Traceback (innermost last): Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 113, in publish Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 40, in call_object Module OFS.DTMLMethod, line 153, in __call__ - <DTMLMethod at /somepath/somedtmlmethod> - Physical Path: //somepath/somedtmlmethod KeyError: 'validate'

I checked the zope source file here:

Zope-2.8.1-final\lib\python\OFS\DTMLMethod.py

and found the reference to the "validate" method in line 128:

if self.__dict__.has_key('validate'): first_time_through = 0 else: self.__dict__['validate'] = security.DTMLValidate first_time_through = 1 try:

My questions are these:

a) what changes could I to the catalog to avoid this error in the future?

Your problem is not in the catalog. If the "KeyError: 'validate'" really comes from the code snippet above, then you have a "DTMLMethod" with a very strange "__dict__". A normal dict would not raise a "KeyError: 'validate'", even when 'validate' indeed does not exist. If fear, this problem is big enough that debugging is necessary.

... Is the catalog getting too large, and maybe the reindex is taking too long to complete?

No (there is no limit on the catalog size. It may just get a bit slower).

b) are there any changes to the script \lib\python\OFS\DTMLMethod.py that I could make which would eliminate, or at least render this error message harmless?

Unlikely. The code (as least the quoted one) should work... -- Dieter