[Zope-dev] Re: Catalog reindexing in Zope

R. David Murray bitz@bitdance.com
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:04:40 -0400 (EDT)


Chris Crownheart wrote:
>        I am trying to make a python based class be Catalog Aware and be
>reindexed when it is edited.  I basically started with the Boring       
>Product How-To, and have turned it into a Company Product.  The class
>inherits from CatalogAware (someone somewhere said that CatalogAware had
>to be the first base class).  I create my Company instance in another
>class by calling the constructor with no values, then immediately
>calling the manage_edit method to update the data.  Based on that, I am
>trying to index the object in the constructor, and reindex the object in
>the manage_edit.  With the code below, the object gets indexed in the
>catalog, but all the fields (indexes) are blank!  The reindex_object
>call is not working for some reason.  (At least it is not updating the
>field indexes like I would expect.)    

(I moved this to zope-dev because I don't think it is a content-managers
question...)

I'm having the same problem.  I call self.reindex_object() at the end
of my edit method, but the catalog does not get updated.  If I
call reindex_object by tacking it onto the end of the URL for my
object, the catalog gets updated.  Is there a trick to getting
reindex_object to work from a python product?  I'm using the
default catalog name, by the way.

I'm running Zope 2.1.6, and I note that there was an exchange earlier
about a possible problem in 2.1.6 where from a ZClass someone found
they could not call reindex_object directly but had to use a redirect.
Sounds like a variation on the same problem...anyone have a clue?

--RDM