[Zope] Catalog reindexing in Python

[Chris Crownhart]

Zopesters,

	I am trying to make a python based class be Catalog Aware and be
reindexed when it is edited.  I basically started with the Boring
Product How-To, and have turned it into a Company Product.  The class
inherits from CatalogAware (someone somewhere said that CatalogAware had
to be the first base class).  I create my Company instance in another
class by calling the constructor with no values, then immediately
calling the manage_edit method to update the data.  Based on that, I am
trying to index the object in the constructor, and reindex the object in
the manage_edit.  With the code below, the object gets indexed in the
catalog, but all the fields (indexes) are blank!  The reindex_object
call is not working for some reason.  (At least it is not updating the
field indexes like I would expect.)

	The other gotcha is that I have named my catalog something other than
the default "Catalog".  I believe the line,
self.default_catalog='YPCatalogForSorting' takes care of renaming it.

	I have a feeling that I have a problem with Acquisition.  It seems like
the constructor knows how to find the catalog, but the manage_edit does
not...

Thanks for any help,

	Chris


class Company(
   Products.ZCatalog.CatalogAwareness.CatalogAware,  # Catalog Aware
   OFS.SimpleItem.Item,   # A simple Principia object. Not Folderish.
   Persistent,            # Make us persistent. Yaah!
   Acquisition.Implicit,  # Uh, whatever.
   AccessControl.Role.RoleManager # Security manager.
   ):
.
.
.
   def __init__(self, id, title='', REQUEST=None):
      self.id = id
      self.title = title
      self.a_companyName=''

      ## This is for CatalogAware.
      self.default_catalog='YPCatalogForSorting'
      self.index_object()
.
.
.
   def manage_edit(self, title, REQUEST='', a_companyName=''):
      """does this really need a doc string?"""
      self.title = title
      self.a_companyName = a_companyName

      ## This is for CatalogAware.
      self.default_catalog='YPCatalogForSorting'
      self.reindex_object()