Stefan Seelmann wrote:
What about another method to allow deletion of children ?
deleteChildren( String/LdapDN dn) ?
What would be the exact meaning of this method?
- only the immediate children
- recursively all children
- the DN plus recursively all children
this method is a bit ambiguous when seen through the above three points
I treated this method as mentioned in point 2 - recursively all children.
May be we can have a method like
* delete( String/LdapDN dn, boolean deleteChildren )
the dn and *all* its children will be removed if deleteChildren set to true
else the dn alone will be deleted
But what would be tricky is the implementation:
- Use tree delete control
this is the preferred way IMO
- try to delete parent first, if error delete children first
- check for children first
in the absence of tree delete control, I would prefer 'check for children first'
(to save an additional hit on the same dn to fetch children, if exist)
- what about following aliases and referrals, could be
honestly no clue atm
thanks Seelmann
Kiran Ayyagari
