[Zope] CatalogAware when there's no 'Catalog'

Zopista zopista@zopezen.org
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:22:38 -0700


Yes, catalog aware looks for an object called Catalog. No choice there
(unless you hack Zope).

Unless you are looking at huge numbers (say 10,000+) you shouldnt notice
much perfomance difference by using catalog, so if it makes your life easier
just use one.
--
  Zopista

----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Wilson" <wilson@visi.com>
To: "Zope listserv" <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:11 PM
Subject: [Zope] CatalogAware when there's no 'Catalog'


> Hi everyone,
>
> It seems like it's not possible to create a CatalogAware ZClass that
> automatically catalogs itself in anything other than a ZCatalog named
> 'Catalog'. Is that the case?
>
> Does a rule of thumb exist to help decide when you should us a 'Catalog'
in
> your Zope's root folder and when it would be better to use a custom
> 'FooCatalog' in a subfolder somewhere for specific purposes. For example,
> I've created a catalogaware ZClass to store breakfast and lunch menus for
> our schools. I'd like to query a ZCatalog somewhere to pull out a menu for
a
> certain day or a range of days. Would it promote catalog-bloat (if such a
> thing exists) to store those in the root 'Catalog' with all of the
resulting
> indexes and meta data?
>
> -Tim
>
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