Need API call to delete data library folders

[hexylena]

My tool automatically manages certain folders of a library to reflect data contents elsewhere on server (available versions of data). I'd like to see the API extended with a library_delete_folder() call; (it currently has library_delete_dataset() call, which works fine!). Nice if bioblend picks this up too!

from @ddooley on trello

(Judging by my reading of library api and folder api this looks to still be a bug)

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

ok. And it is still desired! Thx.

[martenson]

In your mind would the folder_delete call delete all its contents recursively?

[hexylena]

versus having to manually figure out the tree and going bottom up, deleting folders one at a time? Yes, absolutely. (Alternatively a recursive=True flag of some sort...)

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

"versus having to manually figure out the tree and going bottom up, deleting folders one at a time? Yes, absolutely. (Alternatively a recursive=True flag of some sort...)"

Both ideas sound good to me.

[martenson]

Soooo it seems this is already possible since 15.03
c14342b2
The new UI also implements this.

[nsoranzo]

Also available in BioBlend since December 2014.

[martenson]

ping @Public-Health-Bioinformatics in case you do not follow all notifications

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

Assuming we're talking about the recursive deletion of a library folder here. Ok, thanks. I won't be able to check it out soon, but eventually a recoding will be in order.

Regards,

Damion

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Subject: Re: [galaxy] Need API call to delete data library folders (#519)

Soooo it seems this is already possible since 15.03
c14342bhttps://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/commit/c14342b2

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