IHierarchyItem.Delete Method  IT Hit WebDAV for .NET

Deletes this item.

Return Value

• NoContentResponse - this item was successfully deleted.
• LockedResponse - this item or its parent was locked and client did not provide lock token.
• MultistatusResponse - errors has occured during processing of the subtree. Each ItemResponse must contain info for every item that was successfully deleted or failed to delete.

Remarks

Delete invocation must delete only folders and resource items. Lock-null items are deleted during Unlock method call.

Example

Example of Delete implementation for WebDAV Class 2 server:

 public class Folder : HierarchyItem, IFolder, IFolderLock
 {
        ...
        public override WebDAVResponse Delete()
        {
            Folder parent = Parent as Folder;
            if(parent == null)
                return new ConflictResponse();
            if(!parent.ClientHasToken)
                return new LockedResponse();

            if(!ClientHasToken)
                return new LockedResponse();

            MultistatusResponse mr = new MultistatusResponse();

            foreach(IHierarchyItem child in Children)
            {
                HierarchyItem dbchild = child as HierarchyItem;
                WebDAVResponse resp = dbchild.Delete();
                if(!resp.IsSuccess)
                    mr.AddResponses(new ItemResponse(dbchild.Path, resp));
                else
                {
                    MultistatusResponse mrchild = resp as MultistatusResponse;
                    if(mrchild != null)
                        mr.AddResponses(mrchild.Responses);
                }
            }

            if(mr.Responses.Length > 0)
                return mr;
            else
            {
                DeleteThisItem();
                return new NoContentResponse();
            }
        }
        ...
    }
 

See Also

IHierarchyItem Interface | ITHit.WebDAV.Server Namespace

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