Preventing operations in a virtual file system?

Question

Hello,

What is the recommended approach for preventing directory/file creation/renaming/removal in some circumstances (e.g. only in the file system's root)?

For renaming, I have attempted:

• cancelling the operation in FileSystemNotifier.RenamePreview event; in this situation I'm not able to provide a meaningful feedback to the sftp client (it receives "Internal server error")
• not doing anything in ReadWriteFileSystemProvider.Rename; in this situation, there is no feedback at all for the client and the server logs the operation as successful (which is a bit confusing for my purpose...)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello,
I think that option 1 (Cancelling the operation in FileSystemNotifier.RenamePreview event) is correct.

I understand that message returned to the client is confusing.
What message do you need/prefer on the client?

1) We can prepare beta for you. In the beta we will return better message whenever FS operation is canceled in the preview event.

2) We are considering to add better support for the error messages generated from the custom file system.

Comments

Hi,

The message is "Operation not allowed", but it would be nice to be able to pass the message when cancelling, for different scenarios.
Beta would help.

Thanks for the support, really appreciated.

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Hi Paula,
 I have sent hotfix to your e-mail.