Indexing an arbitrary content in portal_catalog.

indexing.py

import transaction
from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import newSecurityManager
from DateTime import DateTime
from Testing.makerequest import makerequest

app = makerequest(app)

newSecurityManager(None, app.acl_users.getUserById('admin'))

site = app.plone
ct = site.portal_catalog

person = {
    'Description': 'A dude', 
    'title': 'John Doe', 
    'url': 'http://localhost:8080/plone/person/1', 
    'text': 'John Doe', 
    'portal_type': 'Document', 
    'getId': '1', 
    'id': '1', 
    'meta_type': 'Document', 
    '__roles__': ('Manager', 'Owner', 'Editor', 'Reader', 'Contributor'), 
    'path': ('', 'plone', 'person', '1'), 
    '_Access_contents_information_Permission': ('Manager', 'Owner', 'Editor', 'Reader', 'Contributor'), 
    'Type': 'Document', 
    'email': '', 
    '_View_Permission': ('Manager', 'Owner', 'Editor', 'Reader', 'Contributor')
}

class Person():
    
    data = DateTime()

    def getPhysicalPath(self,**kw):
        return tuple(self.path)
        
    def Data(self):
        return self.data
    
    def ModificationDate(self):
        return self.data
    
    def modified(self):
        return self.data
    
    def created(self):
        return self.data
    
    def Title(self):
        return self.title
    
    def SearchableText(self,**kw):
        return self.text
    
    def absolute_url(self,**kw):
        return self.url
    
    def allowedRolesAndUsers(self):
       return self._roles_


new_person = Person()
for k,v in person.items():
    setattr(new_person, k, v)

ct.catalog_object(new_person,uid='/'.join(new_person.getPhysicalPath()))

transaction.commit()