[Zope3-Users] query all objects in catalog

[Gary Poster]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Robert Marianski wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:11:40PM -0500, Gary Poster wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Robert Marianski wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to query a zope3 catalog for all objects that have  
>>> been
>>> indexed? I see that there is a way to ask an index for the number of
>>> documents it currently has indexed, via documentCount() in the
>>> IStatistics interface, but I can't a good way get back all objects  
>>> that
>>> have been indexed.
>>
>> The intid utility kinda sorta does what you want, depending on how  
>> careful
>> you were in your intid use.
>
> I was using grok, so however that set it up. The intid utility did
> indeed have all the objects, but it had more objects than were indexed
> with the catalog ... so I would have to filter them out myself. Not  
> sure
> if that's what you mean.

Yup.

>> zc.catalog's extents do exactly what you want, but it doesn't sound  
>> like
>> you are using that right now.
>
> I'm not familiar with extents, I'll give them a look. Thanks.

You can either be more careful about what you put in your intid  
utility (the standard Zope 3 subscribers are more indiscriminate than  
you might expect), or you can set up an extent on your catalog that  
filters out what you don't want and use that.

Gary