Introduction

This is an Zope Catalog index to query treeish structures in the ZODB by path. It supports depth limiting, and has the ability to build a structure usable for navtrees and sitemaps. The actual navtree implementations are not (and should not) be in this package. This is the index implementation only.

Assumptions

EPI makes an assumption about the catalog and index being in the same container as all the content. This makes a lot of sense in a Plone setting, but might not work as expected in other scenarios.

A query like /plonesite/folder, level=0 is transformed internally to /folder, level=1. This avoids touching the rather large plonesite set which contains reference to all content in your site.

Features

• Can construct a site map with a single catalog query
• Can construct a navigation tree with a single catalog query

Configuration

In a GenericSetup profile, provide th following snippet to create an index:

<index
    meta_type="ExtendedPathIndex"
    name="my_path">
  <extra
      name="indexed_attrs"
      value="my_path"
  />
</index>

For multi valued paths, provide an extra (switches off an breaking optimization not needed for this cases):

<index
    meta_type="ExtendedPathIndex"
    name="my_path">
  <extra
      name="indexed_attrs"
      value="my_path"
  />
  <extra
      name="multi_valued"
      value="True"
  />
</index>

An example for an index with multiple values per path element: Imagine to index multilingual content. Every item is translated and all translated items share a common unique identifier (this is how plone.app.multilingual works). Now create an indexer returing this unique identifier instead of the items ID as a path element. With this it is possible to query all elements of all languages in a folder in one go (for an advanced usage of this pattern look at plone.app.multilingualindexes).

Usage

catalog(path='some/path')

search for all objects below some/path (recursive, equivalent to depth = -1)

catalog(path=dict(query='some/path', depth=0))

search for the object with the given path. For multi valued paths, multiple objects are returned.

catalog(path=dict(query='some/path', depth=2))

search for all objects below some/path but only down to a depth of 2

catalog(path=dict(query='some/path', navtree=True))

search for all objects below some/path for rendering a navigation tree. This includes all objects below some/path up to a depth of 1 and all parent objects.

catalog(path=dict(query='some/path', navtree=True, depth=0))

search for all objects below some/path for rendering a breadcrumb trail. This includes only the parent objects themselves.

catalog(path=dict(query='some/path', navtree=True, navtree_start=1))

search for all objects below some/path for rendering a partial navigation tree. This includes all objects below the path but stops 1 level above the root. The given path is included, even if it is at a shorter path in the portal than the level parameter would allow.

catalog(path=dict(query='some/path', navtree=True, depth=0, navtree_start=1))

search for all objects below some/path for rendering a partial breadcrumb trail. This includes all parents below the path but stops 1 level above the root. The given path is included, even if it is at a lower level in the portal than the start parameter would allow.

catalog(path=dict(query='some/path', level=2))

search for all objects whose path contains some/path at level 2. This includes paths like /foo/bar/some/path and /spam/eggs/some/path, plus all children of those paths.

catalog(path=dict(query='some/path', level=-1, depth=0))

search for all objects whose path contains some/path at any level. This includes paths like /spam/some/path as well as /foo/bar/baz/some/path, but only those exact matches are included in the result because depth is set to 0.

catalog(path=dict(query=(('foo/bar', 2), ('bar/baz'), 1), depth=0))

search for multiple paths, each at different levels (foo/bar at level 2, and bar/baz at level 1), and return exact matches only.

Credits

• Zope Corporation for the initial PathIndex code
• Helge Tesdal and Martijn Pieters from Jarn for the ExtendedPathIndex implementation
• Alec Mitchell for the navtree and listing optimizations

License

This software is released under the GPLv2 license.