[Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/trunk/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.txt Remove inline tutorial, this is better covered in http://docs.zope.org/zope2/zope2book/SearchingZCatalog.html

Hanno Schlichting hannosch at hannosch.eu
Sat Jul 31 17:56:20 EDT 2010


Log message for revision 115297:
  Remove inline tutorial, this is better covered in http://docs.zope.org/zope2/zope2book/SearchingZCatalog.html
  

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  D   Zope/trunk/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.txt

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Deleted: Zope/trunk/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.txt
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--- Zope/trunk/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.txt	2010-07-31 21:54:33 UTC (rev 115296)
+++ Zope/trunk/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.txt	2010-07-31 21:56:19 UTC (rev 115297)
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-ZCatalog Tutorial
-
-  This document provides a tutorial for 'ZCatalog', the new search
-  engine machinery in Zope.  The audience for the document is content
-  managers.
-
-  Contents
-
-    o What is it?  What's it for?  Why's it so cool?
-
-    o ZCatalog Objects
-
-    o Example using ZCatalog
-
-    o Creating Search Forms And Result Reports
-
-    o Using ZCatalog In A Zope Site
-
-    o ZCatalog vs. Catalog
-
-  What is it?  What's it for?  Why's it so cool?
-
-    The 'ZCatalog' provides powerful indexing and searching on a Zope
-    database using a Zope management interface.  A 'ZCatalog' is a
-    Zope object that can be added to a Folder, managed through the
-    web, and extended in many ways.
-
-    The 'ZCatalog' is a very significant project, providing a number
-    of compelling features:
-
-      o **Searches are fast**.  The data structures used by the index
-      provide extremely quick searches without consuming much memory.
-
-      o **Searches are robust**.  The 'ZCatalog' supports boolean
-      search terms, proximity searches, synonyms and stopwords.
-
-      o **Indexing is wildly flexible**.  A 'ZCatalog' can catalog
-      custom properties and track unique values.  Since 'ZCatalog'
-      catalogs objects instead of file handles, you can index any
-      content that can have a Python object wrapped around it.  This
-      also lets objects participate in how they are cataloged,
-      e.g. de-HTML-ifying contents or extracting PDF properties.
-
-      o **Usable outside of Zope**.  The software is broken into a
-      Python 'Catalog' which wrapped by a 'ZCatalog'.  The Python
-      'Catalog' can be used in any Python program; all it requires is
-      the Z object database and the indexing machinery from Zope.
-
-      o **Transactional**.  An indexing operation is part of a Zope
-      transaction.  If something goes wrong after content is indexed,
-      the index is restored to its previous condition.  This also means
-      that Undo will restore an index to its previous condition.
-      Finally, a 'ZCatalog' can be altered privately in a Version,
-      meaning no one else can see the changes to the index.
-
-      o **Cache-friendly**.  The index is internally broken into
-      different "buckets", with each bucket being a separate Zope
-      database object.  Thus, only the part of the index that is needed
-      is loaded into memory.  Alternatively, an un-needed part of the
-      index can be removed from memory.
-
-      o **Results are lazy**.  A search that returns a tremendous
-      number of matches won't return a large result set.  Only the
-      part of the results, such as the second batch of twenty, are
-      returned.
-
-    The 'ZCatalog' is a free, Open Source part of the Zope software
-    repository and thus is covered under the same license as Zope.  It
-    is being developed in conjunction with the Zope Portal Toolkit
-    effort.  However, the 'ZCatalog' product is managed as its own
-    module in CVS.
-
-  ZCatalog Objects
-
-    A 'ZCatalog' performs two activities: indexing information and
-    performing searches.
-
-    Most the work is done in the first step, which is getting objects
-    into the index.  This is done in two ways.  First, if your objects
-    are ZCatalog-aware they automatically update the index when they
-    are added, edited or directly deleted.  *Directly deleted* means
-    the object was deleted from a Folder, not the deletion of a
-    containing Folder.
-
-    The second way that site contents get updated is by "finding"
-    information "into" the 'ZCatalog'.  An operation based on Zope's
-    Find view traverses Folders looking for objects matching the
-    criterion.  The objects are then registered with the Catalog.
-    Objects in the index but no longer in the site are removed from
-    the Catalog.
-
-    Either way -- automatically updating or walking the Folders --
-    'ZCatalog' indexes the objects it finds.  The 'ZCatalog' is set up
-    to look for properties, each of which are added to the index.
-
-    There are two kinds of indexes, called FieldIndex and TextIndex.
-    FieldIndex indexes treat data atomically.  The entire contents of a
-    FieldIndex-indexed property is treated as a unit.  With a
-    TextIndex index, it is broken into words which are indexed
-    individually.  A TextIndex is also known as *full-text index*.
-
-    Note that the 'ZCatalog' doesn't track ZCatalog-unaware objects
-    after it has indexed them.  This means that the 'ZCatalog' must
-    reindex its objects occasionally when the objects have been
-    changed.  Out of date indexes can be prevented by inheriting from
-    a ZCatalog-aware class which can tell the 'ZCatalog' to reindex it
-    whenever a change is made.  Just such a class will be included
-    with the Portal toolkit.
-
-    ZCatalogs are "searchable objects", meaning they cooperate with Z
-    Search Interfaces.  Creating a search form for a 'ZCatalog' is a
-    simple matter of adding a Z Search Interface from the management
-    screen and filling in a form. ZCatalogs can also be queried directly
-    from DTML, as shown in the example below.
-
-  Using 'ZCatalog' In A Zope Site
-
-    The 'ZCatalog' provides high-speed access to what is on your site.
-    Thus, the 'ZCatalog' can be used to re-engineer the way your site
-    is laid out.
-
-    For instance, a Slashdot-style presentation is simple.  Just
-    insert some DTML that asks the 'ZCatalog' for recent items.
-    Alternatively, a Site Map is nothing more than presenting the
-    contents of the catalog.  A page with tree-based browsing of
-    software packages by category is also easy.  Perhaps you'd like to
-    provide a link that lists all the packages the current user has
-    authored.
-
-    Thus, the 'ZCatalog' isn't just about searching.  It can be used
-    as the DTML-scriptable engine for browsing a site as well.
-
-    Since the 'ZCatalog' is a normal Zope folderish object, you can
-    also create DTML Methods inside it to present the catalog
-    contents.  For instance, perhaps you'd like to dump the contents
-    of the site as an RDF stream, or do content syndication with RSS.
-    These are just DTML Methods that change the 'Content-Type:' and
-    send back XML.  All without actually waking up any of the content
-    objects in the site.
-
-  ZCatalog vs. Catalog
-
-    The real star of this package is the 'Catalog' module.  All the
-    heavy lifting is done by 'Catalog'.  'ZCatalog' is basically a
-    Zope-aware wrapper around Catalog, which can be used on it's own
-    outside the Zope framework.  The only requirement is that you are
-    using ZODB as your object store.



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