[Zope] Zcatalog and PrincipiaSearchSource with Zclasses ?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geir B Hansen [mailto:geirh@funcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:04 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Zcatalog and PrincipiaSearchSource with Zclasses ?
> 
> From what i gather, the PrincipiaSearchSource variable let 
> you do a full
> text search in DTML-documents and methods...

The Catalog can full text search on any property.  PrincipiaSearchSource
is just a 'stock' method.  You can use any method you want.

> It seems, though, that this doesn't work with Zclass-instances..

Sure it does.

> Is there any way to do a full text search of Zclass instances ??

Yep.

> for example i'd like to be able to search among my 'newsdoc' 
> instances,
> not only by title, author or content, but with a single 
> form-field.. Is
> this possible ??

Sure, why not just impliment a DTML Method in your ZClass called
PrincipiaSearchSource that returns what you want indexed?

<dtml-return "title + author + body">

-Michel