[Zope-dev] automatically doing a Catalog search as part of ob ject traversal...

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Baxter [mailto:anthony@interlink.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 1:19 AM
> To: zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-dev] automatically doing a Catalog search as part of
> object traversal...
> 
> 
> Say I have a catalog HelpCatalog, with a bunch of documents that have
> unique IDs. I want to be able to do something like
> HelpCatalog/by-id/SomeUniqueID
> and have it return the document SomeUniqueID.
> 
> Do Catalogs support any sort of Direct Traversal like this? 

No but it's not a bad idea.

> Or am I going
> to have to do it myself with a mixin class?

You could allways submit a patch. ;)

Note that ZTopics, in a way, does this genericly, it executes canned
queries based on traversal, it might need to be fondled a bit to get it
to do exactly this however.

-Michel