-----Original Message----- From: Timothy Cole [mailto:Timothy.Cole@kellogg.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 11:35 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] regexp - searching documents under a folder tree.

All,

Does anyone know of any methods which exist for searching either a document's title or contents recursively under a Folder tree?

Uhm... define contents. This is the killer question. Do you want your methods rendered? unrendered? does it make any sense to search DTML, does it make any sense to search out of context rendered DTML? The Zope indexing machinery comes with 1.10.2, but it is fairly low level, you'll have to create a whole cataloging product that whizes through your objects indexing their 'contents' and attributes. You would have to write it yourself. We have a Cataloging product that does *exactly this*. It is not open source, and you will need to contact Paul (paul@digicool.com) to make some sort of arrangement (usually $$$) to get it. Optionally you can recursively search through your objects, but this could take a bit more time than using an index. If your tree is small, you can use objectItem or objectValues (see lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py) methods to get a list of all sub-items in a folder, and then iterate over all of them looking for a criteria match, recursivly descending into folderoid object.

Something along the lines of a regexp search would be great.

This could be used to 'match' your criteria when you iterate over a folder objects. -Michel

Any suggestions before I attempt to conquer my first external method :)

Cheers, -Tim

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