[Zope] Zcatalog and PrincipiaSearchSource with Zclasses ?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn Pieters [mailto:mj@antraciet.nl]
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 6:24 AM
> To: Michel Pelletier; 'Geir B Hansen'; zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Zcatalog and PrincipiaSearchSource with Zclasses ?
> 
> 
> At 17:43 21/10/99 , Michel Pelletier wrote:
> >Sure, why not just impliment a DTML Method in your ZClass called
> >PrincipiaSearchSource that returns what you want indexed?
> >
> ><dtml-return "title + author + body">
> 
> This won't work, because you can't index on the result of a 
> DTML Method. 
> The DTML Method doesn't get called with the usual client and REQUEST 
> objects, so the method has no means of obtaining the title, 
> author and body 
> parameters.

Proved wrong again! ;)  Here is a pretty good use case for the catalog
being more intelligent with DTML Methods, anyone want to put this in the
Collector?

> You can do it with an External Method:

This is probably the best idea.

-Michel