Deleting Objects

This section describes how to delete a semantic object from the PCD.

1. Set the parameters for a JNDI lookup in the PCD.

                     Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
   
   env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
       IPcdContext.PCD_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
   env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, request.getUser());
   env.put(Constants.REQUESTED_ASPECT, PcmConstants.ASPECT_SEMANTICS);
   
                  

2. Perform a lookup of the folder that contains the object that you want to delete.

                     InitialContext iCtx = null;
   try
   {
       iCtx = new InitialContext(env);
    
       String folderName = "pcd:portal_content/myFolder";
       Context ctx = (Context)iCtx.lookup(folderName); 
    
   ...
   
                  

3. Delete the object by unbinding the object from the folder that contains it. Use the atomic name of the object.

                     ...
    
       String atomicName = "myObject";
       ctx.unbind(atomicName); 
    
   }       
   catch(NamingException e)
   {
   }
   
                  

You can instead perform an unbind directly on the initial context, and supply the full path to the object.