Datapoint: the catalog displays bad info in the ZMI if meta_type doesn't exist.
See http://collector.zope.org/Zope/479 Florent Casey Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (continuing discussion on zope-dev) > > I am to blame for those changes which were motivated by the addition of a > bunch of new indexes. The most significant of which is ZCTextIndex which has > its own brand new kind of "Vocabulary" object (called a Lexicon, which is > what the old thing actually was). We tried to use the old one or develop a > compatible one, but it was beyond saving, even its API blew. Its one the > worst pieces of cruft in Zope IMHO. > > That is why a vocabulary is no longer created. Also, the Catalog used to > have a hand in managing the vocabulary (basically locating it for > textindexes), this behavior harkens back to before plug-in indexes and was > actually horribly broken, so I ripped it out. > > The other problem was that creating default indexes in the Catalog, although > perhaps convenient for newbies, gets in the way much of the time. I found > myself creating catalogs programmatically and then clearing out all the > indexes and adding different ones all the time. Also, a few indexes namely > summary and bobobase_modification_time were actually broken and/or useless. > The latter is not something the application should use as an index source as > many have discovered. Many of these indexes were also not useful in the CMF. > > Now this is not to say that adding some default indexes (as an option on > catalog creation) would not be useful. Here are some suggestions: > > id FieldIndex > title ZCTextIndex > meta_type FieldIndex > path PathIndex > PrincipiaSearchSource ZCTextIndex > > Granted these are much the same as before minus a few. It would also create > a ZCTextIndex Lexicon named "Lexicon" in the catalog for you and bind the > text indexes to it. > > How does that sound? Anybody else want to suggest index possibilities? > > -Casey > > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:02:36 -0400 > Luke Tymowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello Casey, > > > > > Just noticed that you said that you thought the Catalog was broken in > > > 2.6.0b2. What is the problem you found? Is it in the collector? > > > > Previously, before 2.6.0, when you created a new search engine or > > catalog, inside the catalog Zope would create for you a Vocabulary, > > Indexes, and Metadata with default values. You could add to the > > defaults. But the default was usable and you simply created search and > > results forms. > > > > Now when you create a catalog you have to create the Vocabulary, > > Indexes, and Metadata by hand. Then create the search and results forms > > or use the "wizard" to create them for you. > > > > It's not a big deal for someone who is used to Zope, but for newbies > > it's v difficult to get them up and running with a search engine - and > > it was one of the beauties of Zope - you had a search engine built-in > > that was just about ready to go, making it a much less frustrating > > experience for newbies. > > > > Maybe I'm doing something wrong. > > > > Luke -- Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo (Paris, France) +33 1 40 33 79 87 http://nuxeo.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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 )
