Adding Types to Created ModuleDefinition - collections

It's not as straightforward as it seems; using myModule.Types.Add(fully defined type from another module) throws ArgumentException: "Type already attached!" How could that be when the module is created from scratch? I got the same exception after Clear()ing the Collection, removing even the default empty Type.
I also tried using Types.CopyTo and various Array operations, but the Collection and Array size is fixed internally. The only way to expand it is by Adding, but Attach rejects Types.

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How to pass data between SavingChangesAsync before SavedChangesAsync?

I am trying to pass some information between SavingChangesAsync and SaveChangesInterceptor the issue is that whenSavingChanges is executed new entities have unknown Id, but then when SavedChangesAsync is exetued all temporary properties became final and ids are known. The issue is how to pass data between those methods.
My main concern is it possible that there will be another invokation of SavingChangesAsync before SavedChangesAsync is executed in SaveChangesInterceptor? If yes then I can't use an object field which will be cleared after each SavedChangesAsync.

Is there a fix for InheritanceManager breaking static type checking?

I have added django-model-utils to an existing (large) project, and the build is now failing, as part of the build includes static type checking with mypy.
It complains that models that I have added objects = InheritanceManager() to, don't have attributes for reverse ForeignKeys, if the reverse FK is accessed in a method on that model. For example, take the following:
class Student(Model):
school = ForeignKey(School, related_name='students')
class School(Model):
objects = InheritanceManager() # IRL School is a subclass of some other model
def something(self):
return self.students.filter(...)
Then running mypy on it, will return:
error: "School" has no attribute "students"
And even if I remove the related_name, and use self.student_set (i.e. the default django relation), it will still produce the same type of error. Only removing the InheritanceManager fixes the static type checking. Of course, I'm using it for a reason as I need to select_subclasses elsewhere in the code.
Has anyone come across this, or have a fix?
django-stubs uses plugin to add all managers. This plugin is triggered only if added manager is a "subclass" (not just real subclass, but also recognizable by mypy as such) of models.Manager.
django-model-utils is untyped, so InheritanceManager is in fact Any for mypy, and plugin does not see it. To solve exactly this issue I was adding py.typed marker to django-model-utils as a CI stage after package installation. You can also use a fork with py.typed or create a stub package for django-model-utils. This can result in other issues and doesn't give good type checking (all unannotated methods have Any as implicit arguments and return type), but is better than nothing. For my needs the marker was sufficient.
py.typed marker is an empty file located in package root (venv/lib/.../django_model_utils/py.typed) - it tells mypy that package does not need separate stubs and contains all necessary types.

Plone: catalog_object method won't add my (AT) objects

I have a transmogrifier pipeline to insert objects to my Zope database (importing zexp files from a directory structure). This works - the objects are created; but I don't get them added to the portal_catalog.
I added a section to add the objects to the catalog explicitly, inspired by plone.app.transmogrifier.reindexobject: I call portal_catalog.catalog_object(obj) for each item.
The objects exist, and getPhysicalPath yields the correct values, but the objects are not added. There is no error message or exception whatsoever.
I tried to specify the list of indexes (the idxs argument), but this didn't change anything. If not specified, all indexes should be filled anyway, right?
Since it looks like a transaction problem to me (no errors, but nothing stored in the catalog either), I tried transaction code (begin, savepoint, commit, and in case of exceptions abort), but it didn't help. When I call the catalog immediately after the catalog_object call (portal_catalog(path='/Plonesite/full/path/to/object')), nothing has happened, and an empty list is returned.
The catalog does contain objects; even objects of my custom datatypes (AT-based). Not even the Folder objects of my imports are indexed.
Without the objects in the catalog, my import is useless. What can I do?
Thank you!
Edit: Any hint about how to get my object trees in the catalog is appreciated! Even if it can't be integrated in my process. I need the contents cataloged ...
My custom content types are contained in the Plone Catalog Tool page selection field, but I don't know whether this is sufficient.
Edit 2:
Somehow my objects have been catalogued - the unrestrictedSearchResults method shows them! However, it can't be the desired solution to use this method all over; so I need to "un-restrict" the entries somehow.
It turned out that I have a monkey:patch (xmlns:monkey="http://namespaces.plone.org/monkey") for the Products.CMFPlone.CatalogTool.CatalogTool.searchResults method; this filters the catalog for my additional field subportal unless a special value for it is given - even in the management view ... Unfortunately, I had no way to specify this special value in that view.
Thus, the solution was to weed out all wrong values (for subportals which don't exist in the other Zope tree) to have the default value take effect.
Quite specific to my setup, I'm afraid ...

overriding a constructor

This is a simple questions. I have researched this questions in my notebooks and books and the internet but cant find an answer
Why would we override the default constructor by adding parameters to it?
You would create a constructor for a class to manipulate its member variables according to whatever other conditions as soon as it's created. I get the impression you don't actually know what a constructor is.
Many languages (like C++/C#/Java) automatically create default no-arguments constructor when none defined in the class explicitly.
When you create a constructor in a class with or without arguments usually compiler stop creating default auto-generated constructor (depending on language specification). This is done on assumption if you have some non default initialization than automatically generated one is likely to not create object in a state you would expect.
Since having constructor with arguments is natural way to create objects it is essentially lead to "removing" default auto-generated constructor which probably can be called "overriding default constructor".

Index Specific Type without Its Contained Types

I add a FieldIndex for my content type according to the Plone.org instructions.
In the ZMI, I can see the indexed items at /mysite/portal_catalog/Indexes/Building. My content type (providing IMyType, with one field building) is folderish and contains a Photo (providing IPhoto, without building field) as allowed_content_types in profiles/default/types/MyType.xml file.
I want indexing only for MyType's building field. However, it seems items of Photo type get indexed with the value from their parents. That's annoying. Does the code #indexer(IMyType) mean indexing for IMyType and its contained types? How can I index only for IMyType?
What an indexer does is to get the attribute directly from the object being indexed. In Plone that is as special wrapper, one that will use registered indexers (as created with the #indexer decorator) if they exist.
However, if you index happens to index building and that is also an attribute on your IMyType objects directly, any contained objects will have that attribute through acquisition as well. Registering an indexer for IMyType does not prevent this.
There are a few ways around this:
Use a different name for your indexer, one that doesn't match the attribute name. Note that if all you do is index an attribute the indexer is redundant though, the index could just as well retrieve the attribute directly.
Register a "catch all" indexer:
from zope.interface import Interface
#indexer(Interface)
def catchall_ignore(ob, **kw):
# Raising AttributeError means: do not index anything
raise AttributeError
Instead of direct attribute access, now this indexer method will be used instead for Photos, causing the indexer to not register a value for building.
This is how acquisition works.
here how to workaround this:
http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/how-to-prevent-portal-catalog-from-indexing-acquisition-values-td2650735.html
"use a custom indexer that does the aq_explicit check."

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