[Zope-CMF] Re: reindexObject updates modification time?

[Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 3:13 am, Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting wrote:
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>> The version of clearFindAndRebuild in CMFPlone 2.1.3 calls
>> reindexObject(), but I see that in the HEAD (and presumably 2.5.x) it
>> has
>> been changed to simply indexObject(). Presumably this change is in
>> direct
>> response to the fact that reindexObject() touches the modification
>> time...? Which lends even more weight to my original query - why on
>> earth
>> does reindexObject() update the modification time?  I can see utterly no
>> reason why it should...
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> Originally, the catalog support provided a de facto "event mechanism",
> along with its main job:  The 'reindexObject' method was designed to be
> called from within "mutator" methodds / scripts, because the
> 'notifyModified' method is private.  Calling 'reindexObject' *implies*
> that you have edited the object, else why would you be reindexing it?
> The exception is if you pass through a set of indexes.
>
> Note that calling either 'reindexObject' or 'indexObject' is unnecessary
> in the context of a catalog rebuild:  you might as well just call
> 'catalog.indexObject(the_object)' directly.
>
> If you *do* chose to go through the object, you can either just call
> 'indexObject' or pass the list of indexes you want to reindex explicitly.
>
> We can't change this without going through a BBB / deprecation dance, in
> order to allow people to fix code which depends on the current behavior.
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Aha! Now it becomes clear. Thanks for the explaination Tres. I guess my
best option then will be to hotfix the Plone version we are currently
stuck with - thanks! :)

Darryl Dixon
Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
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