[Zope] Searching for and displaying properties

[Sinang, Danny]

> That's the official ZCatalog API. Otherwise find your objects through
a catalog search and reindex them individually.

I already did the reindexing just before the search and it didn't work.
In any case, I may have found a workaround by using getObject().

According to
http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/SearchingZCatalog.stx#2-10 : 

getObject() Returns the actual zope object from the result object. This
is useful if you want to examine or show an attribute or method of the
object that isn't in the metadata--once we have the actual object, we
can get any normal attribute or method of it. However, be careful not to
use this instead of defining metadata. Metadata, being stored in the
catalog, is pre-calculated and quickly accessed; getting the same type
of information by using getObject().attribute_name requires actually
pulling your real object from the ZODB and may be a good deal slower. On
the other hand, stuffing everything you might ever need into metadata
will slow down all querying of your catalog, so you'll want to strike a
balance. A good idea is to list in metadata those things that would
normally appear on a tabular search results form; other things that
might be needed less commonly (and for fewer result objects at a time)
can be retried with getObject.

I tried it and it works. My code now looks like this :

<code>

wf = context.GeneralWorkflow
cat = wf.Catalog

jobs = cat.searchResults({'jobname':'ABC12345'})
for j in jobs:
    print j.getObject().jobname

return printed

</code>

My only question now is ... How much slower is this solution than using
the jobname metadata (assuming it worked).

- Danny