[Zope-dev] ZCatalog and indexes cleanup

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 6/29/09 12:48 PM, yuppie wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> I did plan to work on a small catalog improvement, but after looking at
> the code I'd like to do some cleanup first:
>
>
> 1.) remove the deprecated TextIndex
>
> The deprecation warning says:
> 'Using TextIndex is deprecated (will be removed in Zope'
> '2.12). Use ZCTextIndex instead.'
>
>
> 2.) remove CHANGES.txt, README.txt and version.txt from Products/ZCatalog
>
> These files seem to be obsolete.
>
>
> 3.) remove security declarations from ZCTextIndex and DateRangeIndex
>
> All the other indexes don't have security declarations. AFAICS there is
> no way to access indexes from untrusted code without having the 'Manage
> ZCatalogIndex Entries' permission.
>
>
> 4.) add 'indexSize' to IPluggableIndex and implement it where missing
>
> ZCatalog uses that method and most indexes implement it already.

An API to both get and set 'extras' would be very useful for 
GenericSetup as well :)

Wichert.