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Prohibit Deletion via Rules/Behaviour

manish — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:40:27 GMT

I want to prohibit deletion of any file inside a specific folder of any level of user. Is it possible to implement it through Rules/action or through custom behavior? If yes - how can I do this??? I know about adding/configuring behaviors - just want to know how to stop "deletion" and what event/tr

Re: Prohibit Deletion via Rules/Behaviour

mrogers — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:52:33 GMT

Yes you can just throw an exception from a behaviour.

Make sure that the behavior is triggered within the transaction and not post-commit.

Not nice, but it works!

Re: Prohibit Deletion via Rules/Behaviour

manish — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:21:46 GMT

I contemplated throwing exception, but thought it was very crude. No other clean way to implement this? On which event I can try this in behaviour? It is possible that deletion may take place from CIFS as well, so will this approach work in that case?

Re: Prohibit Deletion via Rules/Behaviour

mrogers — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:39:48 GMT

I agree that its not nice.

A cleaner way is not to present actions that you can't do in the first place. But over a filesystem protocol like CIFS there's not a lot of choice of what you can and can't do.