[Zope] Programmatically adding and deleting indexes in a ZCatalog

[Michael Bernstein]

Michel Pelletier wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Benno Rice [mailto:benno@netizen.com.au]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 12:30 AM
> > To: zope@zope.org
> > Subject: [Zope] Programmatically adding and deleting indexes in a
> > ZCatalog
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got one of these ObjectManager/ZCatalog derived ZClasses, and I'm
> > wanting to add some code to my _add method to delete some of
> > the default
> > indexes and add some new ones.
> >
> > How would I go about doing this?
>
> By calling addIndex, delIndex, addColumn and delColumn.  The add/del
> Index methods add and delete indexes (surprise), and the add/del Column
> methods add and delete columns in the meta-data table.
>
> If my ZCatalog UML model wasn't currently in a hosed state due to our
> high quality modeling product, you could reference it (do I sound
> bitter?).

I know that DC uses Object Design (not sure what version). This is the first
I've heard that it's given you any problems. I had been considering purchasing
it myself.

Can you tell us what problems this product has, and is there an alternative
that's better?

Michael Bernstein.