Ive played around with it a bit more -- I tried doing checkout operations on a file that i did not add the versionable mixin to and I was surprised to see it did not throw an exception (something like "cannot checkout something that is not versionable).
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Alexander Klimetschek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Michael Harris > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If one has a versionable file, do they *have* to use checkin/checkout to > > modify the file content? > > > > I can save a file just fine, but when I try to update it (that is, > overwrite > > the data property of the content node) the update doesn't take. > > A versionable node must be checked out if you want to modify it (or > one of its properties). > > Have a look at the JCR spec, section 8.2 Versioning [1]. > > [1] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=170 > > Regards, > Alex > > -- > Alexander Klimetschek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- --------------------- Michael Harris
