[development] node_delete on module specific node
Nik Derewianka
nik at artofmultimedia.com.au
Wed Apr 29 04:59:14 UTC 2009
On 29/04/2009, at 1:40 PM, Henrique Recidive wrote:
> 2009/4/29 Chris Johnson <cxjohnson at gmail.com>:
>> Perhaps warning the user that they have N nodes of the content type
>> supported by the module which is about to be uninstalled would be one
>> idea?
>
> That's exactly what core does when deleting a custom content type:
>
> "Warning:</strong> there are currently @count %type posts on your
> site. They may not be able to be displayed or edited correctly, once
> you have removed this content type."
>
> So I guess modules doing the same thing on uninstall is a good
> practice.
Could also be helpful to have a link in that message to admin/content/
node with the type=<content_type_to_be_deleted> filter set so that
they can easily review the impact/scope of their change.
Regards,
Nik
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