[Zope-CMF] portal_catalog fails to update

[Kevin Carlson]

Thanks, Gitte.  This works.  Any idea why a catalog aware object would just
stop reindexing itself, though?

-----Original Message-----
From: Gitte Wange [mailto:gitte@mmmanager.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:52 AM
To: Kevin Carlson; zope-cmf@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] portal_catalog fails to update




Kevin Carlson wrote:

> For some reason, the portal_catalog is failing to update indexes and
> metadata that were previously working fine.  When I add a new document
> (Portal File) in a script I am calling the following functions:
>
>    typesTool.constructContent(docType, homeFolder, ts)
>    newDoc = homeFolder[ts]
>
>    ##########################
>    # process metadata on form
>    newDoc.editMetadata( title=docTitle
>                         , description=desc
>                         , subject=subject
>                         , contributors=contributor
>                         ,
effective_date=effectiveDate.strftime("%Y/%m/%d")
>                         )
>
>    ########################################
>    # create plainText property and populate
>    newDoc.manage_addProperty('pt', pt, 'text')
>    newDoc.manage_addProperty('hpt', hpt, 'boolean')
>    newDoc.manage_addProperty('flag', flag, 'boolean')
>
>    ####################
>    # handle file upload
>    newDoc.edit(file=filename)
>
> Previously, the newly created objects were being added correctly and the
> catalog was being updated properly.  The properties (pt, hpt, and flag)
are
> not being updated in the catalog (there are indexes for each) even though
> the properties exist in the document.  If I use the Update Catalog utility
> on the Advanced Tab of the portal_catalog tool, the indexes and metadata
are
> properly updated.
>
> Does anyone know why this would happen?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin


Hi Kevin,

You nedd to call the reindexObject() method on the object when you have
modified the object (e.g. in the edit function).

Greetings,
Gitte Wange