CKAN: Ticket #948: Highlight (to a sysadmin) which packages are deleted

sebbacon — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:23:29 GMT

I would propose a "trash can" model: a "deleted items" area where only deleted items can be viewed / searched. Deleted items should not appear anywhere else, but we could include a "also search deleted items" option in the search for admins. (In which case, deleted items should have a "div class='deleted'" or similar so they can be highlighted with CSS).

dread — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:25:00 GMT

This sounds like a good solution to me. This should include not just packages, but groups and all other stateful objects.

dread — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:27:48 GMT

There's also the API to consider.

One edge case to consider too - currently we don't allow reuse of the name of a deleted package, which is confusing. The deleted package should be moved aside (renamed), unless the deleted package is entirely the same as the new or renamed package.

owner, repo, theme set

sebbacon — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:25:00 GMT

owner set to sebbacon
repo set to ckan
theme set to none

sebbacon — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:19:39 GMT

Emptying the trashcan (which would amount to purging deleted objects) would probably be a function of the administrative dashboard #833

dread — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:30:02 GMT

We have a use case now for DGU where if a user requests a deleted package, he is 302 redirected to another package (specified in the deleted package's extras). This is for the API, but could also be done in the Web UI if deleted packages are hidden away in a trashcan. But this suggests we need a trashcan in the API too.

i.e we should keep the data model really synchronised between the Web UI and API, (even if they are becoming divorced from the ORM Model - or maybe we should have a trashcan in the ORM model too?)

Ideas:

GET api/rest/package - lists active packages
GET api/rest/package/traffic_data - active package
GET api/rest/trash/package - lists deleted packages
GET api/rest/trash/traffic_data_old - deleted package

dread — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:17:22 GMT

Note: Packages will now be excluded from the search view (see #1283). Also there is now no redirect requirement from DGU any more.

owner, status changed

thejimmyg — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:00:59 GMT

owner changed from sebbacon to thejimmyg
status changed from new to assigned

Re-assigning to me temporarily to investigate now that Seb has left.

milestone set; owner deleted

ross — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:58:00 GMT

owner thejimmyg deleted
milestone set to ckan-future