[Zope-dev] Pluggable Indexes and Splitters

[Andy Dawkins]

Chris

Thanks, That makes much more sense.

Still not sure how you could make it work due to previously mentioned
'hardcoding' but the theory sounds spot on.

-Andy

Chris Withers wrote:
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> Andreas Jung wrote:
> >
> > aquires the Splitter from the corresponding Lexicon. Currently
> > there is no official way to make Splitters available only
> > to dedicated components.
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> I think the opposite is true, Splitters and Volcabularies seem to be li=
mited to
> only being used by TextIndexes within PlugginIndexes.
> I just put a bug in the collector about one aspect of this.
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> I think Vocabularies might be generically useful in Zope, not just to Z=
Catalog,
> likewise splitters.
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> I'd love to be able to do:
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> context.mySplitter.split('the qu=EDck brown f0x')
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> ...for example.
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> But, it does seem exraordinarily hard to register new types of splitter.
> Currently, the only way I can think to do it would be something like:
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> import MySplitter
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> from Products.PluginIndexes.TextIndex import Splitter
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> aS =3D Splitter.availableSplitters # why isn't availableSplitters a dic=
tionary?!
> aS =3D aS + ("MySplitter","My Special Funky Splitter")
> Splitter.availableSplitters =3D aS
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> # worse still...
> setattr(Splitter,'MySplitter',MySplitter)
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> ...and I'm not even sure that'd work :(
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> Maybe Vocabularies should be in their own Product and maybe (although m=
aybe not)
> Splitters and Lexicons should be in their own Products too?
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> cheers,
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> Chris
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