[Zope3-dev] Sprintathon: searching?

[Godefroid Chapelle]

At 13:10 6/11/2002, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>We were talking about indexing the 'full text content' of an object.
>What this means depends on the type of object. It is however frequently
>not the responsibility of the object itself to know about it; otherwise
>all objects that could be indexed suddenly have to grow a method returning
>their full text content. While this is a possible implementation strategy
>in Zope 3, it's inflexible, so we'd like to avoid mandate it.
>
>Therefore an adapter is proposed which implements an interface that has
>a method that returns the full text content. You put the code determining
>what full text content means for a certain type of object (or really which
>interface you care about) in the adapter. This keeps both the indexer
>and the original object more simple.
>
>It's probably possible to come up with a set of standard adapters which
>you can configure and reuse. And there could be a default behavior as well.
>
>Anyway, this all follows the basic Zope 3 philosophy. The hope is this
>allows us to write objects which only care about their core responsibilities
>("I am contact information"), and put the framework responsibility (towards an
>indexing system or an object publishing system or a security system or a
>persistence system or HTML view framework and so on) outside those objects. T
>This way we can avoid growing fat magic objects like we have in Zope 2 and
>hopefully increase the flexibility of the system by a lot.
>
>I hope this explains things.

This thread and you explanation finally gives me a good understanding of 
what adapters in Zope 3 are supposed to be and do.

Thanks


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