ZCatalog doesn't do well on hierarchical searches like this. The way
you're doing it (without some sort of change to your objects'
structures) is pretty much the only way. There's a "ZTopics" product
floating around that is supposed to provide functionality like this, but
1) I don't know if it's released, 2) I've never used it.
You *could* add a method to your "superobjects" that returned the
meta_type of all of its subobjects and add that to the Catalog index,
e.g.
def getChildMetaTypes(self):
return map(lambda x: getattr(x, 'meta_type'), self.objectValues())
then add getChildMetaTypes as a keyword index...
then...
for x in Catalog.searchResults(getChildMetaTypes="My Kind Of Object"):
...
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> (Post #2)
> I'm trying to search a zCatalog to find all the objects containing a certain
> type of sub-object.
>
> Right now, I use a dtml-if inside the result loop, but the result count is
> obviously wrong.
>
> There must be a better way to do this, right?
>
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