[Zope-dev] Automatically reindexing CatalogAware objects

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

The problem with CatalogAware objects is that you have to add
self.reindex_object() to any method that updates them.  I think I've thought
of a way to solve this - tell me if/where I'm wrong:

Every time a CA object gets changed a transaction is commited, which means
the object gets pickled and saved into the ZODB.

Every time an object is pickled its __getstate__ method is called.

So, we define the following __getstate__ for the CatalogAware class:

def __getstate__(self)
	self.reindex_object()
	# is __getstate__ supposed to return self?
	return self

Would this work?

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Itamar S.T.  itamars@ibm.net