Class HardDeleteRequestControl

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    java.io.Serializable

    @NotMutable
    @ThreadSafety(level=COMPLETELY_THREADSAFE)
    public final class HardDeleteRequestControl
    extends Control
    This class provides a request control which may be included in a delete request to indicate that the server should completely remove the target entry, even if it would otherwise process the operation as a soft delete and merely hide the entry from most clients.
    NOTE: This class, and other classes within the com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.unboundidds package structure, are only supported for use against Ping Identity, UnboundID, and Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent 8661 server products. These classes provide support for proprietary functionality or for external specifications that are not considered stable or mature enough to be guaranteed to work in an interoperable way with other types of LDAP servers.

    The criticality for this control may be either TRUE or FALSE, but this will only impact how the delete request is to be handled by servers which do not support this control. A criticality of TRUE will cause any server which does not support this control to reject the request, while a criticality of FALSE should cause the delete request to be processed as if the control had not been included (i.e., as a regular "hard" delete).

    The control may optionally have a value. If a value is provided, then it must be the encoded representation of an empty ASN.1 sequence, like:
       HardDeleteRequestValue ::= SEQUENCE {
         ... }
     
    In the future, the value sequence may allow one or more elements to customize the behavior of the hard delete operation, but at present no such elements are defined. See the documentation for the SoftDeleteRequestControl class for an example demonstrating the use of this control.
    See Also:
    SoftDeleteRequestControl, Serialized Form
    • Constructor Detail

      • HardDeleteRequestControl

        public HardDeleteRequestControl()
        Creates a new hard delete request control. It will not be marked critical.
      • HardDeleteRequestControl

        public HardDeleteRequestControl​(boolean isCritical)
        Creates a new hard delete request control with the provided information.
        Parameters:
        isCritical - Indicates whether this control should be marked critical. This will only have an effect on the way the associated delete operation is handled by servers which do NOT support the hard delete request control. For such servers, a control that is critical will cause the hard delete attempt to fail, while a control that is not critical will be processed as if the control was not included in the request (i.e., as a normal "hard" delete).
      • HardDeleteRequestControl

        public HardDeleteRequestControl​(Control control)
                                 throws LDAPException
        Creates a new hard delete request control which is decoded from the provided generic control.
        Parameters:
        control - The generic control to be decoded as a hard delete request control.
        Throws:
        LDAPException - If the provided control cannot be decoded as a hard delete request control.
    • Method Detail

      • createHardDeleteRequest

        public static DeleteRequest createHardDeleteRequest​(java.lang.String targetDN,
                                                            boolean isCritical)
        Creates a new delete request that may be used to hard delete the specified target entry.
        Parameters:
        targetDN - The DN of the entry to be hard deleted.
        isCritical - Indicates whether this control should be marked critical. This will only have an effect on the way the associated delete operation is handled by servers which do NOT support the hard delete request control. For such servers, a control that is critical will cause the hard delete attempt to fail, while a control that is not critical will be processed as if the control was not included in the request (i.e., as a normal "hard" delete).
        Returns:
        A delete request with the specified target DN and an appropriate hard delete request control.
      • getControlName

        public java.lang.String getControlName()
        Retrieves the user-friendly name for this control, if available. If no user-friendly name has been defined, then the OID will be returned.
        Overrides:
        getControlName in class Control
        Returns:
        The user-friendly name for this control, or the OID if no user-friendly name is available.
      • toString

        public void toString​(java.lang.StringBuilder buffer)
        Appends a string representation of this LDAP control to the provided buffer.
        Overrides:
        toString in class Control
        Parameters:
        buffer - The buffer to which to append the string representation of this buffer.