[Zope] Keyword index negative query

[Chris Withers]

Casey Duncan wrote:

>>As you rightly point out, the "help" system is "dodgy" to say the
>>least. What benefit sdoes setting sort_limit currently add?
> 
> RTFM ;^)
> 
> See: http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/ZCatalog_for_2.6.1

It would be nice if, just occassionally, TFM was in one f'ing place ;-)

> See search() method at bottom of:
> 
> http://cvs.zope.org/Zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/IZCatalog.py?rev=1.7&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> All this does though is remove dwim. It doesn't add new query
> capabilities.

Indeed, but what I meant was "couldn't the things 'search' calls be exposed such 
that they could be used to to complex searches, including my holy grail?"

>>PS: I'm still after the holy grail of being able to do boolean
>>combination of indexed searches and sort on multiple indexes in a
>>cascasding fashion. How'd you recommend tackling that now?
> 
> My CatalogQuery product (assuming it still works with 2.7)

Hmmm, is that supported? Does it do sort on multiple columns?

>>PPS: Does Pypes make my holy grail possible?
> 
> It will.

Yay. Although, is there any reason why my holy grail shouldn't be possible using 
the ZCatalog data structures?

cheers,

Chris

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