Preventing the existence of two documents with the exact same path

Question

I've just found out multiple documents with the same name can reside on a single directory, i.e. have the same path, as long as they have different IDs. IMHO, this can be confusing. I'm writing a DFS client, and would like to prevent this possibility. The trivial way would be to check if the name is being already used before a documented is created, but this would somewhat be a waste of time, as it is the rare case. Ideally, I'd like IObjectService.Create() to fail if a document with the same name already exists. Is this possible?

rpdiaz · Accepted Answer

Hi erangi

the reason of that is that the name of the documents are logical names (not phisical).

If you want to get this a good option is to implement your own custom DFS service which would do the following:

1) Check if there exists a document with the same name in the folder. If it exists return an error code to the client.

2) If it doesn't exist, it calls the DFS object creation service to create the document

I hope it helps you

Best regards!