[Zope3-Users] Re: Prevent an event

[Benji York]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Just to be clear: As far as I remember, nothing happens on catalog 
> creation. Stuff happens on *index* creation. When you add an index to a 
> catalog that is already aware of objects, it will make sure that the 
> newly added catalog is up to date by forcing an indexing procedure. And 
> yes, this will wake up all the objects in your catalog (which isn't a 
> recursive process, nor does it mean "touch"ing in the sense of 
> modification).
> 
> Unfortuantely, there isn't a way to prevent the execution of a selected 
> event subscriber (which is probably what you want; you don't want to 
> prevent the event as a whole).

I've had the need to do this when adding an index to an app with a large 
amount of content (30 gig or so), but unfortunately I don't remember how 
we did it.  If no one pipes up soon I'll try to dig up the details.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation