Is the deletion of files really permanent?

MarcTabaries · August 19, 2021, 10:25am

I’m planning to use Cockpit for a small e-commerce site project. I need to know more about how Cockpit works.

For instance, I upload an image (or another type of file : .pdf, .svg, .mp4, …), via the Cockpit backend, in storage/uploads/myfolder/myimage.jpg

Later, I decide to delete this image… will this image be completely deleted from the server, or will it still be present in other Cockpit folders (temporary folder, cache folder, etc.) ?

I’m asking this question because in other backends I’ve already had this behaviour and it caused me some problems (the image was indeed deleted from the server, but as it was still present in the cache folder… it was still possible to access it).

I did some tests and it seems that Cockpit does not have this kind of problem… but I need to be sure.

Can you confirm this for me ?

Thank you in advance.

abernh · August 19, 2021, 9:11pm

Deletion of assets is handled here

github.com

agentejo/cockpit/blob/30f090dd4b3c3a1153afdf6a849543c62229b5e4/modules/Cockpit/module/assets.php#L230

    
      
                  unlink($_file);
          
          
        $this->app->trigger('cockpit.assets.updatefile', [$_asset, $asset]);
          
          
        return $_asset;
              }
          
          
    return false;
          },
          
          
'removeAssets' => function($assets) {
          
          
    $assets = isset($assets[0]) ? $assets : [$assets];
          
          
    foreach ($assets as &$asset) {
          
          
        if (!isset($asset['_id'])) continue;
          
          
        if (!isset($asset['path'])) {
                      $asset = $this->app->storage->findOne('cockpit/assets', ['_id' => $asset['_id']]);
                  }

And as you can see only the assets DB entry (l.244) and its original file (l.247) are removed.

This means that thumbnail versions of the image will not be deleted, but they will also not be shown anymore as the thumbnail function is checking if the requested asset._id is still a valid (and it is not if deleted).

So the answer is:

NO, not all representations (orignal, thumbnail) of this image will be deleted.

YES, the image will not be available anymore in any form (original, thumbnail) via the API.

That being said, some users claim, that there seem to be some caching issues: Entries deleted inside Cockpit are retained in API - #3 by abernh .
I was so far not able to reproduce this issue.

Topic		Replies	Views
How to delete multiple assets?	3	274	August 1, 2023
Disable the Finder module (according to the user ?) and change the way the Assets module works Feature Request	1	750	July 14, 2021
Issue after moving cockpit cms to another folder Support	2	1223	December 15, 2019
Assets thumbnail	5	80	October 17, 2024
What cockpit files can be ignored when pushing to Repo? Support	2	682	October 4, 2020

Is the deletion of files really permanent?

Related topics