[Zope-dev] Catalog Text Indexing

[Bjorn Stabell]

I find it quite handy that it acquires the value.  I often define
"global" methods that I call in an acquired way.  For instance one could
be "MainTitle" which returns a part of the Title only (used to make
heads and subheads out of one Title).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Kerr [mailto:terry@bizarsoftware.com.au]
> Posted At: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 15:04
> Posted To: Zope Developer
> Conversation: [Zope-dev] Catalog Text Indexing
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Catalog Text Indexing
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> Hi,
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> Is there any particular reason that a Text Index will index=20
> an object by
> acquiring the value to index?  Shouldn't it not index at all if the
> value doesn't exist on the object?
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> The only way I can get my objects to not be indexed if they don't have
> the indexing attribute is to set the attribute to None, reindex, then
> remove the attribute.  By make this simple change to
> lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/TextIndex.py
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> 353c353,354
> <             source =3D getattr(obj, self.id)
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> >             from Acquisition import aq_base
> >             source =3D getattr(aq_base(obj), self.id)
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> The object is only indexed if the value exists on that object.  This
> fixes my problem.
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> I believe KeyWord Indexes have the same problem
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> Terry
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