Introduction

slc.autocategorіze enables you to let the objects created inside a folder automatically receive the same categories metadata as the folder itself.

The contained objects receive the same categorization of the folder when they are created. The effect is not retroactive though, and when you change the categories on a folder, the contained objects will not be re-categorized.

How To Use (Simple DocTests):

First we create a folder whose children we want to be categorized automatically:

>>> self.folder.invokeFactory('Folder', 'documents')
'documents'
>>> folder = self.folder._getOb('documents')

To enable the auto-categorization feature, we must set the ‘autoCategorizeContent’ field on the parent folder.

This is a field added via schema-extension, so we cannot use an Archetypes generated mutator.

>>> folder.Schema().get('autoCategorizeNewContent').set(folder, True)

Let’s categorize our folder:

>>> folder.setSubject(['foo', 'bar', 'baz'])

We now create a document inside this folder and test whether it has been given the same ‘subject’ values:

>>> folder.invokeFactory('Document', 'document1')
'document1'
>>> d1 = folder.get('document1')

Normally, when you created an Archetypes object in Plone, the ObjectInitializedEvent is called. slc.autocategorize uses this event to know when a new object has been created.

Here we have to do it manually:

>>> from zope import event
>>> from Products.Archetypes.event import ObjectInitializedEvent
>>> event.notify(ObjectInitializedEvent(d1))

Now we test that the folder’s categories have been added:

>>> d1.Subject()
('foo', 'bar', 'baz')

Let’s also make sure that existing categories on a document are not deleted when it receives new ones from it’s parent folder. We also want to be sure that when the child object already has one of the categories of the parent, that it is not duplicated during the autocategorization process:

First we create the new object:

>>> folder.invokeFactory('Document', 'document2')
'document2'

Then we set the categories:

>>> d2 = folder.get('document2')
>>> d2.setSubject(['baz', 'buz'])

Then we call the event to notify slc.autocategorized that an object was created (in Plone this happens automatically):

>>> from Products.Archetypes.event import ObjectInitializedEvent
>>> event.notify(ObjectInitializedEvent(d2))

Let’s test that the categories are as expected:

>>> d2.Subject()
('baz', 'buz', 'foo', 'bar')

Finally, we test that the ‘recursive autocategorіzation’ feature works. First we create a subfolder and inside that folder another document:

>>> folder.invokeFactory('Folder', 'sub-folder')
'sub-folder'
>>> subfolder = folder.get('sub-folder')
>>> subfolder.invokeFactory('Folder', 'document3')
'document3'

Again we have to call the appropriate event:

>>> d3 = subfolder.get('document3')
>>> event.notify(ObjectInitializedEvent(d3))

And now we make sure that now categories were set yet, since the recurse feature was not yet activated:

>>> d3.Subject()
()

Ok, so let’s now activate recursion:

>>> folder.Schema().get('recursiveAutoCategorization').set(folder, True)

Then we create a new document:

>>> subfolder.invokeFactory('Folder', 'document4')
'document4'
>>> d4 = subfolder.get('document4')
>>> event.notify(ObjectInitializedEvent(d4))

and test that the categories were set correctly:

>>> d4.Subject()
('foo', 'bar', 'baz')

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