[Building Sakai] custom entity broker for http delete

[Matthew Jones]

If you needed to use direct, you probably have to use the RequestInterceptor
to pre-process the entities in a "before" method. Look at how it was done
on these direct interfaces to content:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/resources/rsf/trunk/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/resources/logic/entity/ResourcesListItemProvider.java


At the conference we were talking about cleaning these entities up and
moving them into core.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Marc Savitsky <marc.savitsky at oucs.ox.ac.uk
> wrote:

> I need to write a custom entitybroker method to remove a resource.
>
> I have tried to use http delete, for example
>
> curl -v -X DELETE -u "admin:admin"
>
> http://localhost:8080/direct/content/group/9c57a615-c92a-4879-baaf-3ec8df262b16/myFolder/myfile.txt/removefile?__auth=basic
>
> but entity provider doesn't like the slashes in resource id and
> entityExists is called with a truncated string.
>
> Does anybody know if it is possible to use a http delete in the case
> where the resource id contains slash characters?
> Or can anybody suggest another way that I should be looking at to do this?
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