[Zope-dev] ZCatalog with ZClass

[Michael Bernstein]

Lily Li wrote:
> 
> Hello, everyone,
> 
> It seems that many of you have used ZCatalog pretty well.
> 
> My problem is that I'd like a ZClass (of a Product) to subclass
> CatalogAware, and implement all the index and search inside the Product.
> That means I don't want to do any DTML method stuff outside of the Product.

What you probably want is to create a repository that
subclasses ZCatalog as is described in this HowTo:

http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/inherit_ZCatalog

And then add your CatalogAware ZClasses into it. Then you
can set up your ZCatalog/ObjectManager with search methods.

HTH,

Michael Bernstein.