Products.ExtendedPathIndex 2.5

Zope catalog index for paths

Introduction

This is an index that supports depth limiting, and the ability to build a structure usable for navtrees and sitemaps. The actual navtree implementations are not (and should not) be in this Product, 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

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.

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 ZPL license.

Changelog

2.5 - December 19, 2008

• Cleaned out tests: removing ZTC cruft, turning them into proper unit tests and removing tests that tested other non-index components. [mj]

• Fixed level handling for queries where a (path, level) tuple is passed in instead of using the general level parameter. [mj]

• Refactored and documented the index codebase. Several bugs were discovered and solved in the process. Missing functionality was also added, all search options should now work across all scenarios. [mj]

2.4.1 - September 28, 2008

• Fix typo in setup.py which broke installation of the egg [ree]

2.4 - September 11, 2006

• Relaxed a check for path only allowing strings so far. Now we except all basestrings. This closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5617. [hannosch]

• Converted log infrastructure to use Python’s logging module instead zLOG. [hannosch]

2.3 - December 18, 2005

• Added some extra debug information when an improper path is cataloged. [sidnei]

2.2 - October 7, 2005

• Add seperate index structures on the parent path and the full path of all objects. This significantly improves scaling for navtrees, breadcrumbs, and listings. [alecm]

• Assume that EPI is used inside same container as content and use relative search instead of absolute - basically transforming / plonesite search to / search with startlevel set to 1 instead of 0. [tesdal]

2.1 - May 20, 2005

• Implement ‘indexed_attrs’ support for ExtendedPathIndex.

• Prevent navigation tree queries from stopping prematurely if the queried-for path does not actually exist in the index, but its parents do.

1.0

• Path index capable of generating a navigation tree structure from cataloged data.