[Zope] automagic reindexing of objects

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jürgen Herrmann" <Juergen.Herrmann at XLhost.de>
> i make heavy use of indexes in my extension classes. these all inherit
> from catalogpathaware, so i have to call object.reindex_object() on
> each changed instance. calling it from attribute getters/setters f.ex.
> is not a good idea, because changing 3 attributes will reindex the object
> 3 times.
>
> what i'd like to have is that such objects are reindexed automatically
> before comitting a transaction.

You can't index before committing.  I think you need a different strategy: 
how about creating all of the new objects and then call the catalog/indexing 
mechanism.  We do this for one of our large volume catalogs (1m+ records), 
by having an object class/catalog that are not 'aware' and then manually 
(well, thru a python routine) cataloging/indexing the objects.

HTH

Jonathan