[Zope] programmatically adding an index.

[Joachim Schmitz]

Andreas Jung schrieb:
> 
> 
> --On Dienstag, 1. Februar 2005 11:38 Uhr +0100 Joachim Schmitz 
> <js at aixtraware.de> wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>>
>> in my Product I trying to programmatically create an index. like so:
>>
>> myCatalog.addIndex('id', 'FieldIndex'), this works fine, but when I try
>> to specify the indexed-attribute like so:
>>
>> myCatalog.addIndex('name_sort','FieldIndex',
>> extra={'indexed_attrs': 'name'})
>>
>> the new index does not include the indexed_attrs. This is because the
>> __init__ of Products/PluginIndexes/common/UnIndex.py
>> expects for extra an instance of the HTTPRequest.py record-class.
>> and does not support the mapping interface for extra. Is this a bug or
>> feature ?
>>
> 
> Not a bug. As the doc say it expects a record object but not a mapping 
> although a mapping
> would be more elegant if you want to create indexes through Python and 
> not TTW. Please
> file a collector issue for this feature request. There is already some 
> code in TXNG that handles
> both record-style and mapping-like arguments.
> 
> -aj

submitted as issue 1688


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