OpenAPI: submit file deletion to staging

System

We have some old code that tries to delete a file from a workarea, and them submit the deletion to staging using OpenAPI as follows:

IWSimpleFile sFile = (IWSimpleFile)IWPathNamedObject.lookupByPath(fileService, path);
sFile.destroy(fileService);
IWFileBatch.SubmitFileRequestInfo submitFile = new IWFileBatch.SubmitFileRequestInfo();
submitFile.fileComment = "";
submitFile.fromFile = sFile;

Collection submitFileCollection = new ArrayList();
submitFileCollection.add(submitFile);

IWFileBatch.ResultOfChange submitResult = IWFileBatch.submit(fileService,fromArea,submitFileCollection,IWPathNamedObject.rkmSelf,null,false, true,false,null,null,null,true, true,IWPathNamedObject.oNone);

I'm getting the following error at run time:
- com.interwoven.api.service.IWServiceManagedObject$InvalidException: Invalid service managed object.
at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteCall.java:245)
at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:220)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:122)
at com.interwoven.api.filesys.IWFileBatchRemoterImpl_Stub.submit(Unknown Source)
at com.interwoven.api.filesys.IWFileBatch.submit(IWFileBatch.java:987)

Is this the correct way of submitting a deleted file?

Thanks in advance!

Dwayne

One of my co-workers just showed me a block of code that's very similar to this, and is throwing a similar error. I'll admit I'm no OpenAPI expert, but the one thing that strikes me as potentially suspicious about this is that you're trying to submit the deleted file as an IWSimpleFile object. According to the docs that I've read, IWSimpleFile is a subclass of IWFile which can only represent a normal file. It specifically cannot represent a "hole," which is Interwoven's terminology for a place where a file used to be.

This problem was placed on the back burner here, so I haven't spent any significant time trying to track down the problem, but I would consider trying to coerce your object into being an IWHole object, and see if that can be submitted.

I'd also appreciate hearing your results, good or bad, so that I can pass it on to my coworker.

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