try: ob = r.getObject() ob.function()
or if that doesn't work: ob = catalog.getobject(r.data_record_id_) ob.function() Bear in mind that getObject traverses to the object which is expensive both in time and memory if the number of results is large. hth, -Casey On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:05 pm, Nicholas Henke wrote: > Hello~~ > I am playing with using the Catalog class in ZCatalog along with CatalogQuery > to create a generic object layer on top of ZODB. I can index and search til I > am blue in the face, and I always get the correct answers. Now for the > problems... > > Say I have the following obj: > class test(Persistent): > variable = 1 > def function(self): > print self.__dict__ > > now if I do: > catalog = Catalog() > catalog.addIndex('variable', Fieldindex('variable')) > catalog.addColumn('variable') > obj = test() > catalog.catalogObject(obj, id(obj)) > > catalog_query = CatalogQuery(catalog, "variable==1") > results = catalog_query() > for r in results: > print r.variable # ok > print r.getRID() # ok > print r.function # NameError > > ...so I can get an object (a mybrains instance )back that allows me to print > r.variable, but I cannot get r.function(). > How does one do this? Is there a mapping between RIDs in the catalog and real > objects somewhere? Do I need to do that mapping in an IOBtree (it would make > the most sense since I am using id(obj) as the uid in the catalog)? Is there > somewhere in Zope/google/web that does this? > > Thanks for any help!! > Nic > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )