[Zope-dev] PathIndex doesn't index last part of path

[Andreas Jung]

I think you should publish it as fishbowl proposal on dev.zope.org
and propose the implementation to go into Zope 2.7.

Andreas
----- Original Message -----
From: <sean.upton@uniontrib.com>
To: <andreas@andreas-jung.com>; <casey@zope.com>; <andy@agmweb.ca>;
<zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 17:49
Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] PathIndex doesn't index last part of path


> I'm all for putting together a proposal to do this, soliciting comments,
and
> contributing to the effort.  What would be the right venue for that?
>
> On the other hand, AFAIK, the addition of a depth query feature to
PathIndex
> as it is wouldn't likely break existing indexes.  And given that Andy's
need
> (get metadata for a Cataloged object, given some cached referecne, in this
> case a path, to it) could be filled by the Catalog itself (or changes to
> it), I'm not sure what other features would be needed out of PathIndex?
>
> In brief, what I would like:
> results = Catalog.searchResults(path={'query':myContainersPath,
> 'depth':0, 'level':0})
> Where depth means:
> -1 In parent of path specified (up one)
> 0 Contained within path specified
> 1 Contained in path specified or directly in one of its
> children
> 2 Same as above, but also in child container's child
>
> No depth specified means behavior is like current functionality in path
> indexes.  A brief glance at docs and code gives me the impression that
this
> could peacefuly co-exist with level.
>
> Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Jung [mailto:andreas@andreas-jung.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:14 PM
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> zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] PathIndex doesn't index last part of path
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <sean.upton@uniontrib.com>
> To: <casey@zope.com>; <andy@agmweb.ca>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 00:58
> Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] PathIndex doesn't index last part of path
>
>
>
> >
> > One thing that seems to be feature-broken about PathIndexes, though, is
> the
> > lack of ability to specify a depth (not level, but depth of a match, for
> > example, to specify items).  Above and beyond support for a specific
place
> > within a hierarchy, there needs to be a simple mechanism to support
query
> > for an absolute path, and only objects directly matching that path, or
> > directly contained within that path.
> >
>
> Following this thread I appears to me that there is a need for several
> new functionalities inside the PathIndex (maybe a new PathIndexNG). In
> this case I suggest to write a proposal to collect all requirements.
> I volunteer to help on the implementation.
>
> Andreas
>
>
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