[Zope-CMF] Problem: addIndex with type as string

[Jean Jordaan]

Hmm, looks like Plone (well, CMFTypes) specifies the type of index
as a string, when adding indexes to the 'portal_catalog'::

   catalog.addIndex('UID', 'FieldIndex', extra=None)

But Zope 2.6 (and I think 2.5.x too) doesn't like that::

  TypeError: Catalog addIndex now requires the index type to
             be resolved prior to adding; create the proper
             index in the caller.

(from the event.log). Looks like CMF also does this, at least in
CMFCore/CatalogTool.py::

         for index_name, index_type in self.enumerateIndexes():
             addIndex( index_name, index_type )

where 'index_name, index_type' are both strings.

http://plone.org/collector/539
http://collector.zope.org/CMF/86

-- 
Jean Jordaan
http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za