[Zope] Catalog without a Z

[Max M]

Andre Meyer wrote:

> Dear Zopers
> 
> The Zope Book explains the use of ZCatalog for indexing and searching 
> (http://zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/SearchingZCatalog.stx). 

> However, I want to use Catalog (and not ZCatalog) in my 
> file-system-based product. I use a Folder object to which I add custom 
> objects using self._setObject(id, item).
> 
> Does anybody have a good example of what is needed for this purpose? 
> What are the preconditions for indexing/searching in this context?

"ZCatalog" is the class name. Normally you have an instance of this 
class with the id of "Catalog"

I that case you only need to subclass CatalogAware:

from Products.ZCatalog.CatalogPathAwareness import CatalogAware

class AProduct(CatalogAware, other mixins...):

     etc...



regards Max M