Retrieving deleted file history

[Aestros]

I'm working with the API and I've encountered a problem. I need to get every version of a project from vault. Everything works fine for the moment except for deleted files.

The only way to retrieve history of a deleted file is to force an undelete on it and this makes a new log in the file history. So my question is, can we get the history of a deleted file without undeleting it ?

[shannon]

There isn't a way to get the history for a deleted file.

However, getting each version of a folder should cover all the versions of the files within that folder.

[Aestros]

Thanks for the tips. It seems to work if I get the folder instead of the file directly.

[Aestros]

One more question about undelete operation.

I've tried to find a way to "undelete" files with the API but I wasn't able to find a function to do it.
Can you help me out ?

Thanks !

[shannon]

You'll just need to create changeset items and commit them:

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				VaultClientOperationsLib.ChangeSetItemColl items = new ChangeSetItemColl();
				foreach (VaultDeletedObject d in deletedObjects)
				{
					VaultClientOperationsLib.ChangeSetItem item = null;

					if (d != null)
					{
						item = new ChangeSetItem_Undelete(VaultDateTime.Now, String.Empty, String.Empty, d.ID, d.FullPath, d.DeletionID);
					}				

					items.Add(item);
				}
				ret = _clientInstance.Commit(items);

And you get a list of deleted items from a folder this way:

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ClientInstance.ListDeletedObjects(_vFolder.FullPath, false);

[Aestros]

Was already able to get all the deleted objects .
The "ChangeSetItemColl" routine was what I was looking.

Thanks a lot again for the fast answer

[shannon]

Great, just wanted to cover all the bases

[Aestros]

One more thing.
Your routine work very well, it's easy to undelete every files with this, but, the comment are not showing up in Vault Client even if I change the 1st string.Empty and add a comment parameter in the .commit call. Is this an expected behavior ? Because I know you can't add comment directly from your Client application when undeleting objects but your API function support it.

Original code

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VaultClientOperationsLib.ChangeSetItemColl items = new ChangeSetItemColl(); 
            foreach (VaultDeletedObject d in deletedObjects) 
            { 
               VaultClientOperationsLib.ChangeSetItem item = null; 

               if (d != null) 
               { 
                  item = new ChangeSetItem_Undelete(VaultDateTime.Now, String.Empty, String.Empty, d.ID, d.FullPath, d.DeletionID); 
               }             

               items.Add(item); 
            } 
            ret = _clientInstance.Commit(items); 

Changed line #1 :

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item = new ChangeSetItem_Undelete(VaultDateTime.Now,"Automated Undelete", String.Empty, d.ID, d.FullPath, d.DeletionID); 

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ret = _clientInstance.Commit(items,"Automated Undelete"); 

[shannon]

Try setting the comment this way:

ClientInstance.InternalChangeSet_SetComment("comment");

I think you're wanting to set the change set comment, not an item comment.

[Aestros]

Nice !

It's working for the "Change Set Comment" as you said.
Thanks !