Thanks Jakob, we'll make sure the doc for xdmp:directory-create gets fixed.
As for checking if the directory exists, a directory is a properties fragment at a URI with the special prop:directory property (see the "Properties Documents and Directories" chanper of the Application Developer's Guide, chap 10 p 102-- http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/4.1/books/dev_guide.pdf). For example, if you run the following: xdmp:directory-create("/test/jakob/") then run the following: xdmp:document-properties("/test/jakob/") it returns the following properties document: <prop:properties xmlns:prop="http://marklogic.com/xdmp/property";> <prop:directory/> </prop:properties> So to check for its existence, check to see if the xdmp:document-properties call on the directory URI has a prop:directory property. Hope that helps. -Danny -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 7:16 AM To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] discrepancy between doc and release notes (directory-create) Just a quick note that the doc seems out of sync with reality :) doc for xdmp:directory-create() http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/4.1/apidocs/UpdateBuiltins.html#xdmp:directory-create "Creates a directory. If security is enabled, the document permissions and collections are set to the given parameters, if supplied. Otherwise, the current user's default permissions and/or collections are applied. If the beginning of the the document URI is protected, the user must have access to that URI privilege. If the directory URI does not end with a '/' one is added. *If the directory already exists, then nothing is done*." release notes: http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/4.1/books/relnotes.pdf "In 4.1, if you try to create a directory (using xdmp:directory-create, for example) and the directory already exists, then an exception is thrown (XDMP-DIREXISTS). In 4.0, the directory was re-created, and no exception was thrown. If you have code that relies on the old behavior, you must modify that code to make it handle the exception when the directory exists." As there doesn't seem to be a xdmp:directory-exists() function (could fn:exists() be used?), what's the "correct" way to avoid exceptions been thrown? I'm currently using try/catch. cheers, Jakob. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
