File Deletion
 

How can I delete a file on RC with a script? The only alternative that I could find was:

NPC Code:

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requestfiledeletion( "filepath/filename" )

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But like Skyld said when I asked him; thats a function with the scripted Client RC.


Whatever, but can anyone tell me how its done?

deletefile("path/to/file")

Didnt work.

Has to be serverside.

Duh.


Heres what I tried (file and location are not the same for *security* reasons or whatever):

NPC Code:

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function onActionServerside()

{

  if (params[0] == "DeleteFile") {

    echo( "wee");  //Confirms that it get this far

    deletefile( "levels/folder/filename.txt" );  // Yes, im trying to delete a .txt

    sendtorc("/refreshfilelist");  // Updating the folder

  }

}

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Then something is wrong thats beyond what we can see here.

NPC Code:

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deletefile(str) - returns boolean ¹

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¹ Script Functions: NPC-Server

I sent a message to Stefan, hopefully he´ll look into it and/or tell us whats wrong.

I have used this before, and I just tested it on my NPC-Server and it works.

Perhaps something was done to my NPC-Server? I doubt it would be just mine though.. so maybe Stefan can help.

Odd. Maybe something with the folder options? Doubt it though since its able to read info from the text files.

Ok, lets show a more detailed explanation on what im trying to do then. First, the script!


Note: not the actuall script, but I tried this and the file wont get deleted.

NPC Code:

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function onActionServerSide()

{

  if (params[0] == "deletefile") {

    echo( "Deleting file...");

    deletefile( "levels/items/Weapons/phantombane.txt");

  }

}

//#CLIENTSIDE

function onCreated()

{

  triggeraction( 0, 0, "serverside", name, "deletefile");

}

---

Then, lets /find the file on RC!



Ok, next step: lets add the NPC to myself and check if it gets deleted!



Ah, now the file should be deleted, right? But.. its still in the folders! Lets check with /find..




So, does anyone have a clue what im doing wrong if anything?

Only thing I can think of, is that you can't delete files in the levels folder.

I delete files regularly from my manadb/items/*.arc folder and it works fine.

-performs a deletion-

See!

Ok, so I added myself rights for a new folder!

And from there, I could delete the file I tried to delete.. but the problem is, now I cant use loadlines from the documents there since the folder isnt listed in server options.. and as far as I know, you can only add subfolders to leves/ in the folder options.

So if im wrong, and you can add other folders there, please tell me how to do.. if not, am I screwed when it comes to deleting a file?

The file doesn't have to be in the folder config for you to be able to use loadlines and such. Just specify the entire path to it.

Ok, I got it to work when I moved the files to a folder thats not a sub-folder to levels/.

Yeah, just like I thought. :)

You use deletelevel() to delete things in the levels folder.. at least you can delete levels that way.

I know. I tried using deletelevel() on other files aswell, didnt work though.

deletefile() is not allowed to delete files in the levels folder, for security reasons, since there is no system for script rights yet. deletelevel() can be used for deleting level files (.nw, .graal).

Couldn't we rename another type of file to a .nw or .graal using a script, then delete it?

It seems to depend upon the directory, not the file extension. So, unless you could rename inside levels/, then it again wouldn't work.