Re: HTTPResource.delete()

Huh?  I'm a bit confused about how that fits into 
HTTPResource.delete().  It looks a lot more like something that would go 
into FileResource.  I was referring to HTTPResource lines 657-662, 
HTTPResource.delete().  Or did I just misunderstand your response?

Eric

On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Anselm Baird_Smith wrote:

> Eric M. Knell writes:
>  > Anselm,
>  > 
>  > Is there a reason that HTTPResource.delete() casts its call to getParent() 
>  > to DirectoryResource instead of ContainerResource?   The function doesn't 
>  > seem to do anything particular to directories.  Should this be changed?
> 
> I just changed it to:
> 
> 	    if ( p instanceof DirectoryResource ) {
> 		DirectoryResource d = (DirectoryResource) p;
> 		if ( d.getExtensibleFlag() ) {
> 		    // The resource is indexed but has no file, emit an error
> 		    String msg = file+": deleted, removing the FileResource.";
> 		    getServer().errlog(this, msg);
> 		    delete();
> 		}
> 	    }
> 
> Note that this is a work-around to having the"extensible" flag only on
> DirectoryResource (rather then at the COntainer level)
> 
> Anselm
> 

Received on Thursday, 17 April 1997 19:20:37 UTC