[Zope] ZCatalog (2.3.1) won't acquire method from parent fold er?
sean.upton@uniontrib.com
sean.upton@uniontrib.com
Sat, 12 May 2001 15:35:40 -0700
A follow-up: After upgrading to 2.3.2, and further investigation, I have
found I have a problem, and I have found a workaround. However, what I have
discovered is that the problem is not one of acquisition; rather, it is an
issue of ZCatalog not cooperating with my DTML methods, residing on disk as
part of my Python product.
So, in a slightly different light, here is my problem: if I use one of these
DTML methods as an index, it has problems evaluating code because it (the
Catalog) runs the method, but it will not successfully obtain the namespace
of either the object I am trying to catalog / add, or the namespace of the
acquisition parent of the newly created - just about to be indexed - object.
The implication of this, is that while evaluating the DTML, there is a
NameError raised for ANY call to a method within an object of the class you
are trying to index; I did not try accessing properties, but I assume that
they would suffer the same fate: evaluation of the DTML, being run by the
Catalog as an agent, would fail to resolve the namespace of the object for
which it is trying to index, and this would mean that any calls to
methods/properties of the object from within the DTML would fail with a
NameError, raising an exception that breaks any Catalog Aware object
attempting to use a DTML method as a text index.
My iterateText method resides as a python method BOTH in the class for the
object I just added, and the parent folder (a custom class subclassed from
OFS.Folder) I am adding the object to. My searchTextWeighted (the method I
am indexing) was a DTML method on disk, referenced with
searchTextWeighted = Globals.HTMLFile('dtml/searchTextWeighted',
globals())
...I changed this to a python method within the class, and this fixed the
problem, but not in the way I necessarily want. What I am hoping to be able
to do is create templates that get indexed, so that modifying an existing
indexed 'field' does not require directly modifying the class itself, only
the DTML methods to which the class refers to.
Why won't ZCatalog use the namespace of the object it is attempting to index
to run these methods, which belong to the class of those objects? It seems
like if it did, there would be no problem doing what I originally set out to
do. Is this a bug, or am I going about doing this the wrong way?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. For now, I can live with my
workaround...
Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: sean.upton@uniontrib.com [mailto:sean.upton@uniontrib.com]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:44 PM
To: zope@zope.org
Subject: [Zope] ZCatalog (2.3.1) won't acquire method from parent
folder?
Running Zope 2.3.1; A ZCatalog instance that I have won't acquire a method
from the parent folder it resides in; I get a NameError on the method. This
is very strange. The method is called from another method whose results are
supposed to be indexed.
+Zope Root
+Classifieds (Container, Subclassed from
Folder, contains a method called
iterateText(self, text, times))
Catalog (ZCatalog)
I have a text index set up for a method called searchTextWeighted, which is
a DTML template file on disk within a python product. Inside
searchTextWeighted, I have the following DTML:
<dtml-var expr="iterateText(getTitleExpanded(), 5)">
iterateText is a method of a python class that is subclassed from
ZCatalog.CatalogAware and OFS.Folder.Folder:
def iterateText(self, text, times):
"""Repeats output of text times # of lines for # of times"""
result=''
times=int(times)
for item in range(times):
result=result+text+'\n'
return result
I get a name error for iterateText upon trying to add a catalog-Aware class,
when index_objects() is run (I just made this class Catalog-aware). This is
weird, since, in terms of namespaces, iterateText is in a folder above the
Catalog, and also above the item I am trying to ad, so no matter how you
look at it, iterateText should be acquired, and not generate a Name Error.
In testing this out, I am able to traverse to iterateText via URL in a
browser with no problems.
I assume that this is not related to the ZCatalog bug in 2.3.1 where the
Catalog won't run a method requiring arguments. The method in the index,
searchTextWeighted, passes all the arguments needed by iterateText in the
DTML. So I am a bit confused here.
Traceback is below.
------------------------
Traceback (innermost last):
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 223, in
publish_module
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in
zpublisher_exception_hook
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in publish
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply
(Object: manage_addAdItem)
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in
call_object
(Object: manage_addAdItem)
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/DailyClassifieds/item.py, line 251,
in manage_addAdItem
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 302, in
_setObject
(Object: Traversable)
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/CatalogAwareness.py, line
114, in manage_afterAdd
(Object: CatalogAware)
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/CatalogAwareness.py, line
184, in index_object
(Object: CatalogAware)
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.py, line 429, in
catalog_object
(Object: Traversable)
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/Catalog.py, line 448, in
catalogObject
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/SearchIndex/UnTextIndex.py, line 323, in
index_object
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/App/special_dtml.py, line 127, in __call__
(Object: searchTextWeighted)
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 538, in
__call__
(Object: searchTextWeighted)
File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 334, in
eval
(Object: iterateText(getTitleExpanded(), 5))
(Info: iterateText)
File <string>, line 0, in ?
NameError: (see above)
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Sean
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Sean Upton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
SignOnSanDiego.com
The San Diego Union-Tribune
619.718.5241
sean.upton@uniontrib.com
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