[Zope-CMF] Re: Wondering about catalog tool bloat

[yuppie]

Hi!


Alec Mitchell wrote:
> It seems to me that the default CMF catalog tool is a bit bloated.  My main 
> concern is that FieldIndexes are used for Date, created, effective, modified, 
> start, and end (the last two created by CMFCalendar), when they should 
> probably all be DateIndexes.  Plone has already made some of these changes, 
> but it would be nice to have it in the CMF itself.

This is a known problem. See this thread 
<http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2004-March/020461.html>
and this collector issue
<http://collector.zope.org/CMF/191>.

The meta problem is: There are not enough volunteers to resolve issues 
like that.

> Also, what is the purpose 
> of the metadata redundancy between ModificationDate and modified or Date and 
> CreationDate (which are also redundant in the indexes)?

I guess we don't need all of them. But in general the DublinCore methods 
return ISO strings while the CatalogableDublinCore methods return 
DateTime objects. See interface and implementation for details.


Cheers,
	Yuppie