[Zope-dev] CatalogAware

[Chris McDonough]

I think Chris' design (as I understand it) is fine.  CatalogAware is useful
sometimes.  Sometimes it's just overhead.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
To: "Michael Bernstein" <webmaven@lvcm.com>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] CatalogAware


> Michael Bernstein wrote:
> >
> > If you are writing your own cataloging and uncataloging
> > code, then I think that it could be.
>
> Grrrr....
>
> The cataloguing code in Squishdot amounts to about 4 lines, all of which
> are calls to standard ZCatalog interface methods as described in:
> http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/Projects/Interfaces/ZCatalog
>
> If you don't believe me, grep squishdot.py for catalog_object and
> uncatalog_object...
>
> > I
> > was asking why Posting objects shouldn't inherit from
> > CatalogAware?
>
> That wouldn't actually change the number of catalog-related lines of
> code in Squishdot. It was merely increase the compelxity of the product
> by adding CatalogAware as another base class for postings.
>
> > I don't think that only ZClasses can inherit
> > from CatalogAware, that doesn't seem quite right.
>
> CatalogAware isn't quite right ;-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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