[Zope-dev] Length of Search Results/ZServer Crawling

[Jason Spisak]

Martijn ,

Thanks for the clarification.  I didn't know about the count variables. 
Very useful stuff!  I had thought that the 'in' tag was kind of like the
'with' tag in regard to search results.  Learning though.

Thanks again,

Jason 



> At 22:24 20/09/99 , Jason Spisak wrote:
> >Zopsters,
> >
> >Does anyone know why this code:
> >
> >             <!--#in "Catalog(meta_type=['MyClass'])"-->
> >              <!--#var "_.len(Catalog.searchResults())"-->
> >             <!--#/in-->
> >
> >Outside the Catalog, renders the number of all the objects in the
> >Catalog and not the Amount of MyClasse instances in the Catalog?
> >I'd like to get the number of objects of a give type with some property
> >values that are cataloged, but I'm unable to.
> 
> That's because Catalog() is the same as Catalog.searchResults(). So you 
> could rewrite your code to:
> 
>    <dtml-in "Catalog(meta_type=['MyClass'])">
>      <dtml-var "_.len(Catalog())">
>    </dtml-in>
> 
> and then you'll see what you're doing wrong =).
> Better use this:
> 
>    <dtml-in "Catalog(meta_type=['MyClass'])">
>      <dtml-var "_.len(Catalog(meta_type=['MyClass']))">
>    </dtml-in>
> 
> or you could use one of the count- variables to determine the number of 
> objects:
> 
>    <dtml-in "Catalog(meta_type=['MyClass'])">
>      <dtml-var count-meta_type>
>    </dtml-in>
> 
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