[Zope3-Users] querying the catalog

[Duncan McGreggor]

On Sep 30, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Alen Stanisic wrote:

> Not sure if it will help but whenever I had to look up a catalog I 
> would
> only do zapi.getUtility(ICatalog) and I noticed you are also providing 
> a
> name and context.

Yeah, with or without the extra parameters, it always only returns the 
root catalog instance.

> I also believe that if you are looking up a catalog by name as you seem
> to be doing it is not enought for the catalog object to be named
> accumac_catalog but you also have to register it as the name ('Register
> As' field in New Utility Registration) during catalog creation.  I
> usually leave 'Register As' blank as I only ever needed to get catalog
> by ICatalog interface only -> zapi.getUtility(ICatalog)

When I created it, I set "register as" to "accumac_catalog". Based on 
the experience you shared, I deleted my catalog and did not give it a 
name upon creation. zapi.getUtility(ICatalog) now works, as it gets the 
"sub-site's" catalog in the accumac/++etc++site/default directory.

Very strange. If I understood this more, or if there was expert-aided 
interest, I would troubleshoot this. It may not be a bug, but there at 
least seem to be issues of an anti-intuitive nature here...

Alen, thanks again for your assistance in this matter :-)

d