[Zope-dev] ANN: Proposal for ZCatalog "drop-in" indexes

[Chris McDonough]

Thanks, Dieter, I've added these comments to the Wiki.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
To: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] ANN: Proposal for ZCatalog "drop-in" indexes


> Chris McDonough writes:
>  > I'd like comments on this proposal if you've got the time:
>  > 
>  > http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/DropInIndexes
> Looks good.
> 
> When you are changing the indexing and catalog stuff:
> 
>   *  make the interface "index" public, such that
>      it can be used from outside the ZCatalog
> 
>   *  standardize the result type of index searches
>      such that partial search results can easily be
>      combined
> 
>   *  provide operators "union", "intersection"
>      and "difference" on search results.
> 
> 
> What would you gain?
> 
>      We could leave the rigit search interface of the ZCatalog
>      and provide flexible queries that and/or subqueries
>      against different indexes.
> 
>      Especially CMFTopic would profit much from this.
> 
> 
> Dieter
> 
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