[development] D6 Cleaning up on module uninstall

[jeff at ayendesigns.com]

  But what about the fact that the content type of the node, the field 
definition of the fields within it, and the taxonomy vocabulary that 
categorizes them will all be gone? What if someone attempts to edit?
> Do what core does. Do not remove nodes on uninstall. That's better 
> left for a batch process, which is not appropriate for uninstall.
>
> Dave Reid
> dave at davereid.net <mailto:dave at davereid.net>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:48 PM, <jeff at ayendesigns.com 
> <mailto:jeff at ayendesigns.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have my module -install- working fine...creating the needed
>     vocabulary, cck content type with fields, adding the content type
>     to the vocabulary. Now I'm working on the uninstall, and the
>     seemingly infinite cleanup that's needed, not that anyone would
>     ever want to remove my module, once installed!
>
>
>     I believe I have the vocabulary and its data, and the cck content
>     type and its data accounted for with:
>
>
>       taxonomy_del_vocabulary($vid);
>
>       drupal_load('module', 'content');
>       content_notify('uninstall', 'my_module');
>
>
>     and that brings me to nodes et al. There will be nodes (and node
>     revisions) to be removed, and each node can have multiple field
>     instances (cck image field). I don't seem to see a magic function
>     that, given a node type, will remove all associated node data for
>     that type. Also, I think I should remove the files that were
>     uploaded as cck image content. Any tips on a good example of a
>     complete "undo"? :)
>
>     -- 
>
>     Ayen Designs
>     388 Bullsboro Drive #105 · Newnan, Georgia 30263
>     404-271-9734
>     Web:ayendesigns.com <http://ayendesigns.com>
>     Blog: theAccidentalCoder.com <http://theaccidentalcoder.com>
>     Drupal: j. ayen green <http://drupal.org/user/367108>
>     IRQ: j_ayen_green
>     IM (Yahoo) baalwww    (MSN) baalwww at yahoo.com
>     <mailto:baalwww at yahoo.com>
>     Skype: ayendesigns
>
>     Ayen Designs is a tradename of the computer services division of
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/attachments/20110126/74a73663/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ayenlogo
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 8316 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/attachments/20110126/74a73663/attachment-0002.jpe 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: acmelogo
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1462 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/attachments/20110126/74a73663/attachment-0003.jpe